R. Fowler pottery history

Enoch Fowler arrived in Sydney from Ireland in 1837, and established a pottery that mainly supplied the building and industrial trades. His son Robert managed the business from 1873. After WWI, the demand for domestic wares grew, and Fowler’s produced a wide range of pottery for the home, including Langley ware and banded ‘Cornish’ tableware in blue or green with white. They opened a second factory at Thomastown, near Melbourne, in 1927. The company still operates, but manufacture is limited to sanitary fixtures. 

Below, a Fowler delivery truck, about 1920. Courtesy Ken Arnold, Crown Castleton Publishers.

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