For those, like our Contact Us enquirers Dr Giz Mariner, Norman Lippitt, David Drew and Peter Dazeley, who are interested in Fulham Pottery then the LBHF Archives have a wealth of information. Specifically:
1869-1969: ledgers, day, cash, letter, time, wages, sales, stock and despatch books, misc corresp, price lists, copies of plans
Hammersmith and Fulham Archives and Local History Centre
DD/255,DD/261,DD/336,DD/340,DD/379,DD/448
NRA 16821 Fulham Pottery
and
1901-1978: corresp, ledgers, wills and catalogues
Hammersmith and Fulham Archives and Local History Centre
A2006/18
There is the Fulham & Hammersmith Historical Society Archaeological Section (Occassional Paper 1) published in 1974. The Fulham Pottery, a preliminary account by V.R.Christophers, D.C. Haselgrove and O.H.J. Pearcey, also in the archive.
Also the following book may be of use if you can obtain it:
The Journal of Ceramic History number 11 John Dwight’s pottery 1672 to 1978 a collection of documentary sources published Stoke-on-Trent Museum 1979 edited by Dennis Hazelgrove and John Murray.
The following oil paintings are from the Burgess collection.
Fulham Pottery Yard
Painting by E Tudor
Burlington Road scene of Fulham Pottery by Edward Masterson 1974
Posted here for reference as the Contact Us files are only temporary.
The beautifully illustrated post above gives our enquirers useful leads to a wealth of information about John Dwight’s Fulham Pottery. In normal times I would also suggest a visit to the Museum of London, London Wall, EC2 and its Expanding City Gallery (1670s – 1850s).
Sadly, the Museum is currenlty closed. Permit me therefore to describe what I saw there when I visited a few years ago: Surrounded by other ceramic pieces, in one of the cabinets, was a spherical, salt-glazed stoneware grenade of about 1673. It is 80 mm across, would have been filled with gunpowder, and sealed with a wooden plug perforated for a fuse. ‘Our’ potter, John Dwight (c.1635-1703) was an incredible innovator. Having set up his pottery in Fulham in 1672, it seems he planned to supply the army and navy with such ceramic grenades during the Third Anglo-Dutch War (1672-74).
Jane B-D, FHHS Committee