A John Dwight set up a pottery here, opposite the junction of the New Kings Road and Hurlingham Road, some time a little before 1674 and this manufacture continued in various hands on the site right up to 1986. Dwight had obtained a patent for a process to make what he declared was 'commonly known by the names of porcelain of China or Persian Ware as well as the Cologne stoneware.' The Victoria and Albert museum has two pieces that he made with this process. His business run by his widow, and continuing to make porcelain pieces, went bankrupt about 1746 but was revived by a son-in-law, William White, to pass from the family following the suicide of White's grandson. Following a further bankruptcy George Cheavin bought the works in 1891 and made more mundane items - water filters, hot water bottles, sanitary ware and rum bottles. The last were particularly big business in the 1914-18 war following which art pieces were again made here. That activity enjoyed the revival of art ceramics in the late 1940's and early 1950's when the artists Quentin Bell, John Piper and Ivor Abrahams were amongst those involved. The business, now making foodstuff containers which still bear the Fulham mark, expanded beyond what the site could contain and moved to Battersea in 1986. Collections of Fulham Pottery are held by both the Victoria and British Museums. One of the kilns has been preserved to mark the site.

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A History of Fulham