Editing Stoke-on-Trent (section)

===Potters' Holidays===
One of the legacies of the pottery industry was Stoke's version of the [[wakes week]]. Although better known in industrial Lancashire, the Stoke week is known locally as the Potters' Holidays<ref>{{cite web |url=http://pitsnpots.co.uk/2009/06/potters-holidays-the-sad-demise |title=Potters Holidays – The Sad Demise! |date=25 June 2009 |access-date=21 December 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722141725/http://pitsnpots.co.uk/2009/06/potters-holidays-the-sad-demise |archive-date=22 July 2011 |url-status=dead  }}</ref> or Potters' Fortnight and occurred the last week in June, the first week in July and another week in August. This gave what appeared to be strange school holidays—with the summer term having a two-week break at the end of June, then children returning to school for three weeks before taking a five-week summer holiday. This observance has disappeared from the local schools, due to decreased emphasis on traditional industries.