Stoneware bottle made by R. White, London (regd). It would have been stoppered with a cork.
Robert & Mary White started selling ginger beer in 1845 from their home in Camberwell. By 1869, they had five factories. The company was taken over by Whitbread in the 1960s, and by Britvic in 1986. The bottles could be returned: “R White’s ginger beer goes off pop, a penny on the bottle when you take it to the shop“. Stealing the bottles and making drinks to sell in another manufacturer’s name was a common offence – hence the ‘regd’ mark.
Clear, greenish, glass bottle for aerated water or ginger beer, made by Finlay McDiarmid & Co., Glasgow, who produced bottles from the 1870s to the 1910s.
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Stoneware commemorative mug sold in Mona MacDonald`s shop in Scarinish. The mug celebrates the wedding of the Prince of Wales to Lady Diana Spencer on 29th July 1981.
Photograph of Donnie and Mabel MacArthur at the opening of The Glassary restaurant, 1984
Black & white photograph of Donnie and Mabel MacArthur standing outside The Glassary restaurant at Sandaig, on its opening in 1984. (original in filing cabinet 9, drawer 3)
