by Tom Licence | Jan 9, 2016 | Household, Uncategorized
In July 2015, Tom Licence and members of Norfolk Bottles obtained permission to dig on the site of the King’s Lynn town ash-yard, which was the sorting point for refuse to the south of the town from 1883 until c. 1940. In later years the land was put to various...
by Tom Licence | Jun 20, 2015 | Uncategorized
Porter was a strong beer, first marketed in the 1820s and sold in stoneware bottles, which were larger than ginger beer bottles and possessed a double rim and a typical ‘hard shouldered’ shape, as in the picture. This particular bottle was made by Joseph...