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#548099 17th Jul 2011 2:01pm
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Another find in my garden............
remember the screw pop bottle tops? this one has 'A' on the top with B34 underneath it..........

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Don't know if this is from one but I remember the Alpine Pop lorries that used to make deliveries...the drivers were nutters!

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That top would have had a washer with it, don't recall pop bottles with internal thread, thats not to say there wasn't any,I would lean more towards old beer or cider bottles maybe.


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i seem to remember pop bottles with screw tops like this,i remember when all the pop had gone i would suck the top to get any drops that were left on it!!!

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I dug one up on the allotment last week -
'Greenall Whitley & Co.' around the edge 'Warrington' across
the centre , confirming bert's memory for beer bottles !

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I'm sure they were on pop bottles as well...maybe ginger beer or something like that...I can remember those tops...they were always matt finish like those "designer" biscuits you can buy now.

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Definitely a pop-bottle top. I remember them well.


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It seems that they are remembered as being used in many types of drinks, what i can't remember, did the bottles have internal threads or was this type of cap more like a cork that was just pushed in, was the cap made from a material that had a bit of give in it and expanded a little to form a seal.


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Originally Posted by bert1
It seems that they are remembered as being used in many types of drinks, what i can't remember, did the bottles have internal threads or was this type of cap more like a cork that was just pushed in, was the cap made from a material that had a bit of give in it and expanded a little to form a seal.


They were threaded.

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The 'other' sort of bottle top was the wire type which pushed the stopper into a rubber seal eg as the photo below (photo is of a mdoern version - found on a bottle of Australian curry sauce!!)

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snodvan i remember those tops too!!

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Lucozade had screw tops as I recall. Also Bulmer's Woodpecker

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When I was on holiday in the early 1940's in a village near Crewe one of my treats was to go to the village Post Office & shop & buy ginger beer in a stone bottle which had a screw top. The Lancashire Botanical Brewery used stone jars with screw tops too.


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