Brighton Bottles

     An unusual bottle from Littlehampton here!

A Meadowcroft Patent 6oz internal screw mineral.

This particular 'Meadowcroft' ( there were other variations),

is to assist in securely locating the bottle in the filling machine.

John Martin & cCo.

Caves road works, St. Leonards on Sea

1895 onwards

The three known coloured lips.

J.Woodcock & Co

Waldegrave road, Hastings

1890 to 1895

Brooke, Son & Co.

36 Middle Street, Hastings 1885 to 1903

and

49 Middle Street, Hastings 1905 to 1909

G.E.Lankester

Old London Road, Hastings

1909 to 1911

The bottle with the star in the shield is

the more common version of this attractive pair.

The extraordinary bottle next to it is embossed

King & Barnes

Wine Vaults

Carfax

Horsham

 Internal screw applied lip c1910

For years the one or two examples of this bottle were

the subject of great conversation.

 Sussex collectors were just not sure that they really were from Sussex.

I have always thought that they came from, and there must have been,

an outlet at the old grain mill and buildings by Glynde Station.

I used to play there as a child when the building was derelict,

spending whole days chasing ferrel cats and sliding down the grain shutes.

It was easy to imagine the place in Victorian times

with thursty workers, locals and visitors

heading to Glyndebourne Opera House taking a ginger beer.

To think that I was so close to this bottle all those years ago!

This is one of three that recently came to light after

having been found in the mill at Glynde during rebuilding.

I am seeling one on ebay right now and also on this site!

See 'FOR SALE' page

All three of these bottles are rare and particularly good examples.

Chapman, Rye

(no info available)

George Skey/ Wilnecote,/Tamworth

(pottery stamp to the rear)

Note the speckled clay which is the best example of Tamworth clay

that I've seen making this a very special bottle.

(This bottle was unrecorded until I found it in a bootsale!)

By coincidence I dug another with the top missing just 3 weeks later in

Rye Harbour along with this cute little button lid

which is still embedded in some very early type of concrete!

William Parsons

High Street, Rye

(no dates known)

This, and the following bottle, are especially nice examples.

Fisher Clark

14 High Street, Rye.

(no dates known)

Apart from the attractiveness of the bottle itself,

the 'I'M FISHER CLARK'S BOTTLE' wording makes this highly desirable.

There is also a bottle known embossed;

'I'M EDGAR CLARK'S BOTTLE'

Oct 08 -  I recieced the following emails;

From: Liz Clark <lizc8@hotmail.co.uk>
Subject: Fisher Clark's bottle
To: s.homewood@btopenworld.com
Date: Monday, 20 October, 2008, 8:15 PM