Aylesford.
Terra-cotta Works were established here about 1850, by Mr. Edward Betts, who discovered a valuable bed of plastic clay on his estate in the neighbourhood. At the Exhibition of 1851 Mr. Betts exhibited a terra-cotta vase (Fig. [663]) made at Aylesford from this native clay, from a design furnished by Mr. John Thomas, the architect.
Fig. 663.