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.