Rare example of a large-scale cloth hall – an exchange for trading woollen and worsted cloth "pieces" – that is largely intact.
Pierre Adolphe Valette
French Impressionist painter who taught at the Manchester School of Art from 1906 until 1920.
Pilaster
Decorative architectural element used to give the appearance of a supporting column, to articulate an extent of wall.
Pilkington’s Lancastrian Pottery & Tiles
Former manufacturer of tiles, vases and bowls established in 1892, best remembered for their fine glazes such as Royal Lancastrian.
Pillory
Device used to publicly humiliate those found guilty of minor offences.
Pinfold
Enclosure in which stray domestic animals, cattle, sheep, pigs, geese were kept until their owners paid a fine to collect them.
Piscina
Small basin in a Christian church used to clean the priest's hands and the sacred vessels used at Mass.
Pit Brow Women
Female surface labourers at British collieries. They worked at the coal screens on the pit brow (pit bank) at the shaft top until the 1960s. Their job was to pick stones and sort the coal after it was hauled to the surface.
Pitfour estate
Estate in the Buchan area of north-east Scotland, home to James Ferguson of Badifurrow, the first Laird of Pitfour, and two generations of his family.
Pittenweem witches
Five Scottish women accused of witchcraft in the small fishing village of Pittenweem in Fife on the east coast of Scotland in 1704.
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