Early Life
The Cliff family moved to Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent, from the Eccleshall area in about 1725. When Clarice was born their home was on Meir Street on a terrace of modest houses. Cliff's father Harry worked at the local iron foundry in Tunstall, her mother Ann took in washing to supplement the family income, and they had seven children.
Cliff was sent to a different school from her siblings, and this perhaps prompted her more independent approach to her career, and her non-standard life style by Stoke on Trent standards. After school Cliff would visit aunts who were hand paintresses at a local pottery company, and she also made models from papier-mâché at school.
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