Victorian Sheffield Bottles

[Nigel Womersle]

I have an old 'Pot Alley' bottle (glass marble in neck) and a glass Domestos bottle.

[musicinmotio]

my brother used to collect them,he must have over 200 anyone want to make an offer to purchase them

[screw loose]

:thumbsup:i used to have some that someone i knew found i cant remember where but i donated them to my daughters school for a topic that they were doing about victorian times:)

[hennypenny]

There is an interesting web site here about bottles

 

http://www.codds-n-odds.co.uk/fake.html

 

And then of course we are lucky enough to have the National Bottle Museum within easy reach of Sheffield at Elsecar Heritage Centre Antique centre

 

http://www.elsecarantiques.co.uk/antiquecentrephotos.htm

 

http://www.coddswallop.org/mlh.htm

[lindilu]

I have a stone bottle of ink still unopened and sealed it did have a label but there is not much of that left now

[tonkatoy]

Somewhere I have an old, green Wheatley & Bates bottle (also a couple of old postcards advertising "Stym", their non-alcoholic hop bitters). Here is an extract from my notes:

 

John Rutland Wheatley began work in c. 1851 as a "brewer’s traveller" resident in Norfolk Street. By 1859 he was a "black beer and cordial manufacturer" in Division Street. Later the firm of "John Wheatley & Son", had a large brewery in Napier Street and at other locations. Directories of the early 1890s describe the firm as "wine and spirit merchants, black beer brewers, mineral water and cordial manufacturers and hop bitter brewers". By this time they were brewing 200 barrels a day of hop bitters, using water drawn from their own artesian wells. Some time after 1895 the firm merged with Bates & Co. to form Wheatley and Bates, and they opened a branch in Dublin. John Rutland Wheatley became Lord Mayor of Sheffield in 1903-04; he died in 1916. The firm of Wheatley & Bates continued in business until the late 1940s when it evidently fell victim to post-war reorganisation in the drinks trade.

 

They sold out to Hope & Anchor Breweries immediately after the war because H&A wanted their bottling plant. W&B also owned a handfull of pubs including the Big Gun on the Wicker.

 

Malcolm Whetley became chairman of Sheffield Football Club and ran the Queens Arms at Taddington. He died about 20 years ago. Interestingly enough the new owners of the pub have set up a brewery.

[Janber]

I remember Wheatley & Bates brewery being on Napier Street as I used to live next door. I can remember crates of Tizer travelling down the ramp and making a hell of a row! It was one of the first places that I saw bottles of '7 Up'. This is the first site I've ever seen where Wheatley & Bates was mentioned. Whenever I have talked about it to my friends, they don't know what I am talking about!

 

This was in the mid to late 40s.

[poppins]

I have an old brown rusty tin my mom kept her rouge cloths in, lid says

to get gifts

doubel-quick

Rowntrees Jellies . it has Rowntrees logo on the bottom

[rothschild]

I found four old blue glass bottles which had been placed on the ground beside a glass recycling bin at Elsecar.

I sold them on e-bay for £5. lol.

[Hetty]

I knew the Wheatley family very well, but lost touch over the years. I know about Malcolm but what happened to his wife Vera? I don't know where Michael and Lesley are (twins) and I think Gillian went to work/live in Oz. Anybody know?