The growth of Stoke, and the Potteries in the 19th century was partly because of a German alchemist. Did you know that? Did you? Go on, listen to These Weird Isles on Soundcloud, Spotify, Apple, Amazon. No ads, no sponsor, no forced laughter, no shit jokes. #stoke #thepotteries #theseweirdisles #work #money #alchemy #dresden #industrialrevolution

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The Potteries

The Potteries was once the centre of the ceramics industry in Britain. But the industry in this country was slow to produce porcelain, the secret of which was first discovered in Dresden by an incarce

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Walking through an Amersham graveyard I’m shown the unmarked grave of Ruth Ellis, then stumble into the warped and sinister maze that is British ‘justice’. It involves a Buddhist, the deaths of two innocent men and a sadistic judge. #amersham #theseweirdisles #justice

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Amersham

Rambling through a churchyard in Amersham to see the grave of Arthur Machen I discover the resting place of Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be executed in the UK. A small amount of digging reveals the

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