Mow Cop Square Tile Martin brothers pottery images Queen Victoria along with Henry

Queen Victoria along with Henry VIII Queen Elizabeth 1st and Charles 1st

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the area around the castle had been used since the iron age to quarry mill stones for use in watermills

which is now a butchers and the canvas covers of the Stones market stalls in front of the Guild hall

was built which gave the town of Longton a boost when the pottery industry began to appear in the town a distinctive irregular appearance with pot banks lining the main street jumbled in and around the houses of the workers employed in the ceramic industry

Mow Cop Square Tile Martin brothers pottery images Queen Victoria along with HenryThis tile is of Mow Cop Castle. This magical building was built as a folly in 1754 by Randle Wilbraham of Rode Hall, the area around the castle had been used since the iron age to quarry mill stones for use in watermills. Excavations at Mow Cop have found querns dating back to the Iron age. The castle was given to the National trust in 1937. the same year 10,000 Methodists met on the hill to commemorate the first Primitive Methodist camp meeting