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unusual facts about Pott's Ford Bridge


Glasco, Kansas

This small town has two items of interest on the National Register of Historic Places: Pott's Ford Bridge is located just 1/2 mile south of the city limits, and the entire downtown business district has also earned a listing on the register.


Aaron Pott

Pott left Château Troplong Mondont after a year to become head winemaker at Château La Tour Figeac, a Grand Cru Classé located in Saint-Emilion.

Decimus Burton

Bentham Hill House, Southborough, Kent (1830–2) a small country house in Deveyesque mode for Alexandre Pott, now converted into flats

Edwin George Monk

Especially well-known amongst some forty hymn tunes is Monk’s Angel Voices, composed in 1861 for Francis Pott’s hymn of that name, written for the opening of an organ in Wingates Church, Lancashire.

Francis Pott

Pott's piano music is extensively championed by the Russian-Canadian virtuoso Alexander Tselyakov, and his organ works by the acclaimed British organist Jeremy Filsell, with the latter of whom Pott has enjoyed a fruitful collaborative friendship extending back more than 30 years.

Manchester Hydraulic Power

It was constructed at Pott Street in Ancoats, close to the Rochdale Canal, and had four pumping engines and two accumulators.

Pace Egg play

The line up in 2010 included Billy Painter (Who is also chief Editor of The Painter's Chronicle) as The Fool, Dario Coates as St George, Sam Harris as Bold Slasher, Jack Deighton as The Doctor, Rowan Carter as The black prince of Paradine, Jacob Jones as The king Of Egypt, Joe Cotton as Hector, Desmond as Toss Pott.

Pease Porridge Hot

In the 1966 Blake Edwards World War II comedy What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?, Major Pott (Harry Morgan) includes the last lines of the rhyme in his rantings after he is driven mad from getting lost in a maze of catacombs under the Sicilian village.

Uncle Fred in the Springtime

Horace, having fallen out with his cousin Ricky Gilpin over Gilpin's fiancee Polly Pott, daughter of Mustard, lands Pongo even further in the soup by being dressed as a Zulu rather than a Boy Scout during a round of the Clothes Stakes, run by Pott at the Drones.


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