Pottery Beach Cross-Section, Brownsea Island, UK

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In 1852 Brownsea was purchased by an ex-Indian army officer, Colonel William Waugh in the belief that he could exploit the white clay deposits on the island to manufacture high quality porcelain. He constructed a large three-storey pottery on the south shore, complete with engines, a brickworks and a horse-drawn tram to bring clay from the clay pits in the north of the island. […] the Brownsea clay proved unsuitable for making fine china, and the production of pipes and terracotta chimney pots was not profitable enough to finance the initiative and by 1887 the venture closed https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4973408

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Brownsea Island is now managed by the National Trust.

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