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etruria works, etruria, hanley previous: brick house works next: barlaston works etruria works, etruria, hanley opened officially by josiah wedgwood i, and celebrated by the throwing of six 'first day's' vases, on th june , the land on which the factory was built, known as the ridgehouse estate, had
been originally purchased by josiah in for the sum of three thousand pounds. the estate comprised some three hundred and fifty acres, and wedgwood was particularly anxious to purchase it because he knew that it lay directly in the path of the proposed trent and mersey canal. the motto of the factory...
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