The Lost City of Stoke-on-Trent
Language: English
Published by Frances Lincoln, 2010
- Hardcover
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Condition: Used - Fine
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Almost new hardback and jacket. Odor free. No owners' names/labels. Text is clean, unmarked. (Shelf: H3_STOKE) Books are carefully sealed in waterproof poly and boxed to prevent damage during transit.
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- Title
- The Lost City of Stoke-on-Trent
- Author
- Rice, Matthew
- Publisher
- Frances Lincoln
- Publication year
- 2010
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0711231397
- ISBN 13
- 9780711231399
- Item weight
- 32 ounces
- Seller catalogs
- History & Politics
Matthew Rice's detailed - and often funny - architectural watercolours are the basis of this book, but those bones are fleshed out with a narrative of the place: the towering figures of the eighteenth century, Wedgwood, Spode and Brindley; the geological underpinning of coal and clay that fixed its position; the trade with America with cargos mapping the great marches west across the prairies of the New World; the reports of unspeakable humanitarian horrors that sent a thrilling shudder through the drawing rooms of Victorian Britain and the changes those reports brought about; and the sad decline and mismanagements that all but destroyed the city after the second World War. The foreword is written by Matthew's wife Emma Bridgewater, whose first visit to Stoke twenty five years ago inspired her to start a business that still employs over one hundred people in a Victorian factory in the heart of the city.
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About the Author
From humble beginnings, working a kiln set up in the bathroom of a squat she was living in, Emma Bridgewater has built up her eponymous pottery design business over the last twenty five years to a turnover of £8m. All of her ceramics are made in a nineteenth century factory on the Caldon canal in Stoke on Trent. She is married to Mathew Rice, and they collaborate on pottery designs. Emma and Matthew live in Oxford, but retain a home in Norfolk.
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