Cache of old bottles found in Charney
Photos of old bottles found in a garden in Charney. Eiffel Tower Lemonade; Foster Clark Ltd of Maidstone; Owbridges Lung Tonic; Clegg Mineral Water; W A Payne, Wantage (see description below); Morland Ltd, Abingdon; Wantage Brewery Co; Carsons HP Sauce (Carson invented HP Sauce and sold it on). [Photo credits: Trevor Brown]
William Albert Payne Bottles
Trevor Hancock from the Vale and Downland Museum has kindly provided the following information regarding the WA Payne bottle.
WA Payne was a person not a company. That person I believe to be William Albert Payne. He was the licencee of the Red Lion pub in Wantage during the 1870s, as per the 1871 census. The Red Lion was on the site of what is now the VC Gallery and ceased to be a pub circa 1900. William Payne seems to have also been an upholsterer, furniture dealer and engineer. According to later censuses/directories he moved to Mill Street where he continued his career as this rather than a publican. Looking at Ancestry it would appear that he was from St Marylebone in London and this is where he married his wife Mary in 1860. His father in law William Clark was a soda water manufacturer. Perhaps he helped supply the bottles!!
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