Deptford Potteries

In the late eighteenth century there were three different potteries on the west bank of Deptford Creek, the largest being on land now occupied by APT. The extra large* flowerpots that were taken out on the Bounty for the breadfruit plants were made at Mr. Dalton’s Pottery on Creekside* but we have as yet been unable to determine which of the three this was, even though they persisted into the next century.

The shards were found locally in the Creek itself and are probably Victorian.

* Caroline Alexander: Bounty: The True story of the Mutiny on the Bounty.

The map below gives the details of buildings on Creekside just north of Deptford Bridge in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. APT is on land that was then shared between the pottery and the King’s Slaughterhouse.