Deal Pottery
Comments |
Did you know Deal used to have a pottery, on the
site now occupied by The Builder Centre behind Albert Road?
Keen amateur photographer
Peter Sullivan has loaned his old photos of the industrial
area for this week’s Those Were The Days, the history page in the
East Kent Mercury.
It was called Deal Art Pottery at
the start of the 1900s and the land in that area has a seam of
clay. There is still a pond, known locally as Potters’ Pond created
by excavation of the clay for pottery.
Later the pottery began to make
pipes, chimneys and other items for the building trade and the site
was taken over by Castle Concrete and is now The Builder
Centre.
* For full story and more
photographs buy the East Kent Mercury, January 26.
Wednesday, January 25 2012
The KM Group does not moderate comments.
Please click here for our house rules.