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Pountney’s Pottery at Fishponds by Ian Holt – 4th March 2025

Pountney’s Pottery at Fishponds by Ian Holt – 4th March 2025

Ian presented a well attended talk on this sometimes forgotten large company in Fishponds. Exact position is now the site of the Lodge Causeway Trading Estate but little remains. The company moved to Cornwall in 1969 and most records were destroyed. Ian has meticulously researched the pottery with interviews of many ex-employees and builds on an interest in his pottery collection. The company started way back in 1662 in St Annes, then moving to Temple Back, St Phillips Marsh and…

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