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The British Antique Bottle forum was founded by dedicated antique bottle collectors Wayne Richards & Paul Best, originally started in early 2007 our community has gone from strength to strength over the years attracting bottle collectors from across the globe, we first launched a website to run alongside of our forum in 2010 and updated to this new version in 2013, we are a friendly online ...
The venture proved a great success, so much so, in fact, that he was later able to take over the vacant Union Plate glass works nearby for bottle making purposes. Reference Sources… A Merseyside Town 1870 – 1900. 1. St Helens Lantern 15,22 March 1889. 2. St Helen N 23 Jan 1886. 3. The Lancashire Glass Bottle Trade, St Helen Lantern 3 ...
Jul 28, 2014 · The Glass Bottle Trade is in process of being melted down into new parisons without blow pipes and blowers, and instead of five men being necessary to evolve an imperial receptacle for beer or aerated water it almost looks as if five innocently occupied adults might discover pastime in watching the conjoint labours of a machine in placing bottles at the service of good liquor as fast as they ...
The Glass Bottle Trade is in process of being melted down into new parisons without blow pipes and blowers, and instead of five men being necessary to evolve an imperial receptacle for beer or aerated water it almost looks as if five innocently occupied adults might discover pastime in watching the conjoint labours of a machine in placing ...
Cannington Shaw Glass Works. The towns (St Helens) pre-eminence as a glass making centre was further emphasised by the rapid development of local bottle making. This branch of the industry started to expand rapidly about 1870 and in the following 30 years the three firms at St Helens made great progress. By 1889 Cannington, Shaw and Company ...
Dose Glass Collector. A site dedicated to the hobby of collecting old glass chemist dose glasses, lots of interesting photos. Antique Bottles & Glass. A site, for collectors and bottle diggers alike, not only selling antique bottles and glassware, it is also a useful information and resource. Terry’s Torpedos
Historical Bottle Related Gallery…. Below is a slideshow of old photos with a connection to antique bottle collecting from across the world , click on an image to pause it…..
Feb 20, 2013 · The Arctic Lid Dig of 1987. Theres always that moment when digging when you find a damaged item and think “what might have been” this story dates back to 1987 & a dig on a site in Poole, Dorset, a small strip of land had been cleared due to the demolition of some old railway cottages to make way for a new road & entrance into a planned supermarket, on digging was found to date to around ...
Forum. Untitled 1. Welcome to the British Antique Bottle Forum, our forum has been established since 2007 & has been a friendly community for the hobby of digging, buying, swapping & collecting antique bottles, pots & related items. Since then we have teamed up with the Australian Antique Bottle Forum & become "Sister" forums working together ...
The British Antique Bottle Forum was originally started as the “North West Antique Bottle Forum” in 2007, after many years administrating on other unrelated forums at the time I was unsure if there was place in the world wide web for another antique bottle related community but thought I would give it a go purchased a forum software license and set up an economy hosting account, within the ...
