Local Government
Bayswater
Region
Metropolitan
46 - 48 Clarkson Road Maylands
Reserve 9323
Maylands Native Foreshore
Wunderlich Factory
Bayswater
Metropolitan
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| Local Heritage Survey | Adopted | 25 Feb 2020 | Classification 5 | |
• The site has historic value for its association with the early manufacturing industry in Maylands. • The site has historic value for its association with the early ceramics manufacture in Perth in the early 20th century. • The place has social value as a place for passive recreation for the community.
The site of the former pottery works extended from Clarkson Road to the river, west of the junction with Tranby Road and includes the current Maylands Waterland playground. The site is now predominantly open park land with no visible signs of the former use. The channels in the low lying land which provided access for boats to the factory site are still in place although largely not visible because of the wetland vegetation.
This site was the location of the successful ceramics manufacturing firm, Mills Pottery and Co. The firm was established in the early 1900s to supply earthenware pipes in the expanding sewerage and drainage schemes. Improvements in urban drainage and sewerage was a function of the growing population in the metropolitan area and the more rigorous enforcement of good sanitation amongst local authorities. Jack Mills and his family were originally from Victoria and settled in Maylands with his family. The Mills family brought new techniques to the industry in Western Australia and were very successful. Mills and Company had three potteries; Maylands, Belmont and East Perth. The company headquarters were in Perth and a second office and warehouse was located in Fremantle. The company had two barges which took loads of pipes and pottery to Fremantle from Belmont and Maylands, returning loaded with coal for the furnaces. The Mills family lived near the Maylands factory and the business provided work opportunities for many local people. In 1928, Mills and Company was bought by its biggest competitor Wunderlich Ltd. This company was took over the Maylands and Belmont plants and increased the range of products. However with the impact of the Depression in the early 1930s the factories closed and did not reopen.
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Historic site
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| Original Use | INDUSTRIAL\MANUFACTURING | Other |
| Present Use | PARK\RESERVE | Park\Reserve |
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| OCCUPATIONS | Manufacturing & processing |
| DEMOGRAPHIC SETTLEMENT & MOBILITY | Land allocation & subdivision |
| PEOPLE | Local heroes & battlers |
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