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Trent and Mersey canal with barge. Dunn Bennett pottery in centre and Longport Pottery to right

Trent and Mersey canal with Dunn Bennett pottery (centre) and Longport Pottery (right). Copyright: The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery 2002.


Coal
:
* Coal Mining in North Staffordshire website at 

   http://archive.sln.org.uk/exhibit/coa
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* Apedale Heritage Centre website at 
   www.apedale.heritage.cwc.net/index.htm
 
* North Staffordshire Coalfield Mining History website at
  
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/robertburden/

Pottery:
* Spode by Robert Copeland. Published by Shire Publications Lt. 1998
* Spode: A History of the Family, Factory and Wares 1733 - 1833 by 
   Leonard Whiter. Published by Barrie and Jenkins 1990.
* James Sadler & Sons ceramic information sheet at 

   www.stoke.gov.uk/museums/pmag/ceramics/infosheets/cerissadler.htm
* James Sadler & Sons website at www.james-sadler.co.uk
* Aynsley website at www.aynsley.co.uk
* Thomas Whieldon Artnet artist biography at 
   www.artnet.com/library/09/T091372.asp
 

Steel:
* 150 Years of the Shelton Works by Ray Withington and Keith Robinson. 
   Published by the British Steel Printing Dept. Lackenby 1991

Textiles:
* The Victorian Web website at 

   http://65.107.211.206/art/design/textiles/wardle.html
 
* Textiles by William Morris and Morris & Co. 1861 - 1940 by Oliver 
   Fairclough and Emmeline Leary. Published by Thames and Hudson 
   1981.
* A History of the County of Stafford: Leek and the Moorlands edited by 
   M.W.Greenslade. Published by the Oxford University Press 1996.

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