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Portwey Hospital

Grade II listed former workhouse and hospital in Weymouth, Dorset, redeveloped in the early 1990s for residential use.

Posset

Drink made from milk curdled by the addition of an acidic liquid such as wine or ale, which evolved into an early form of trifle.

Potovens pottery

Hamlet on the Wakefield Outwood, now known as Wrenthorpe, where small pot works were built.

Potts of Leeds

Company founded in 1833 in Leeds, England to make domestic timepieces , which expanded into the manufacture and repair of public clocks.

Power-loom riots

Rioting by hand loom weavers in 1826 in Lancashire, England, protesting against the introduction of the much more efficient power looms.

Powerdrive

Three-wheeled microcar produced from 1955 until 1957.

Powis Almshouses

Almshouses in Chepstow paid for by a bequest from Thomas Powis in 1716, intended to house six poor men and six poor women.

Powrie

Redirected to Dunter.

Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

Group of English artists formed in 1848 to counter what they saw as the corrupting influence of the late-Renaissance painter Raphael.

Predictions of Isaac Bickerstaff

Pseudonym used by the satirist Jonathan Swift in a hoax predicting the "infallible" death of John Partridge, a well-known 18th-century astrologer and almanac maker, on 29 March 1708.