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HERCULANEUM Liverpool's best kept secret

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It wasn't only Staffordshire porcelain that became highly fashionable in the early 19th century. Close to the now-famous area of ‘The Potteries’ was another important factory that I call Liverpool's best-kept secret: Herculaneum.

Like Staffordshire, Liverpool had always had a busy industry of small potteries. But with its focus on international trade, Liverpool never spent time or funds to develop these businesses, which mostly produced ‘Delftware’, a tin-glazed earthenware named after the more famous Dutch centre of earthenware.

This all changed when

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