Brickworks and pottery on the Peninsula

Several enterprises operated in the broader peninsula area.

Among them were:

  • Mills Pottery, producing ceramics and clay products
  • brickworks in areas extending towards Tranby on Swan
  • smaller extraction and firing operations

 

These industries continued into the mid-twentieth century, though activity gradually declined as transport improved and alternative sources were developed.

Mills Pottery was:

  • a family-owned pottery that began in 1907 and made pipes,
  • located near the site now occupied by Maylands Waterland,
  • one of the early manufacturing businesses on the Maylands Peninsula,
  • among the first to use the clay from the Maylands Peninsula, and
  • sold to Wunderlich.

 

See our Mills Pottery Flickr Album for digitised images and other digitised information.

Maylands Historical and Peninsula Association acknowledges the Whadjuk people of the Noongar nation as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work, live, and learn. We acknowledge that we tell the stories of Noongar Country and we pay our respects to Elders past and present. This always was, and always will be, Aboriginal land.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples should be aware that this website may contain images or names of people who have passed away.