The bottles were returnable and were supplied with either impressed or printed labels. They are made from salt-glazed stoneware and were most often two tone. Later they were sometimes enhanced with pictures.
Corks were advertised in 1898 at between 1/6d and 2/6d per gross (144) for soda water bottles, 1/3d to 2/3d for lemonade bottles, and 6d to 1/6d for ginger beer bottles.
Corks too were sometimes impressed with the traders name.
The stoneware bottle for W S Brown's Ginger Beer
was made by "Doulton Lambeth".
J W Bright's Risdene Brand
W S Brown
Two bottles for Oldham & Co - Ginger Beer
J W Bright's
half-gallon flagon
Courtesy of Rushden Museum
C G Ward
Family Grocer
Wine & Spirit Merchant
Rushden
Toothpaste pot lids.
A glass bottle of
'Wilkerson's Embrocation
Rushden'
Wallace Wilkerson chemist and druggist only appears in trade directories for
1885 and 1890.
H W Patrick does not appear to have advertised in the directories.
C A Hedley medicine bottle
A beer bottle A S Page
130 Cromwell Road
Also at this address and with very
similar bottles
Mark Southam
was beer retailer in the 1920s
William Chettle in 1890 traded at
20 Cromwell Road
as a grocer and
beer seller.
