Geography (345 pages found in this category)


Perranarworthal

Mostly rural parish in West Cornwall.

Piece Hall

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.

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.

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.

Port of Manchester

Customs port in North West England, created on 1 January 1894 and closed in 1982.

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.

Ramsden’s Shakerley Collieries

Ramsden’s Shakerley Collieries was a coal mining company operating from the mid-19th century in Shakerley, Tyldesley in Lancashire, England.

Red House

House built in 1660 by William Taylor, whose descendants owned it until 1920. The Taylor family were farmers and clothiers, who developed their business into cloth finishing and became merchants.