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Old 14-11-2012, 06:59 PM
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Default Burton & Richardson Mineral Water Company Amble

Here is a photo of the Works Outing for all the staff of the "Soda Pop Company" as Grandma always called it. This photo has always been in my family.
Does anyone recognise the building and it's location?

My father wrote the notes on the back. The owner, John Burton is standing in the centre with his arms folded. As Dad noted, two of his sons Ridley and Jack are on the cart. Grandma was the eldest of thirteen.

Thanks to help on this forum and reading abound the Wynd this morning and looking at the photo, I did wonder if that was where the photo was taken. However on closer examination of the two pictures, the chimneys are different, which suggests this could be the new premises in Bridge Street.

I wonder if this outing could have been to celebrate the opening of the new premises but was it before or after John Burton took over the sole ownership of the business in July 1898.

I've no knowledge of who the man standing next to John Burton is or what William James Richardson his original partner looked like. WJR died in Sept 1903.


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Old 14-11-2012, 07:37 PM
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I think that is Bridge Street.

See the layout on the 1897 map below. I've put an arrow on the camera view. Knox's Garage was built on this site. If it is the Bridge Street mineral works then the chimneys belong to the buildings shown in the street view photo (Image copyright Google © 2012)
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Old 14-11-2012, 07:40 PM
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That's a lovely photo by the way. Thanks for sharing.
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Old 14-11-2012, 09:21 PM
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I think that is Bridge Street.

See the layout on the 1897 map below. I've put an arrow on the camera view. Knox's Garage was built on this site. If it is the Bridge Street mineral works then the chimneys belong to the buildings shown in the street view photo (Image copyright Google © 2012)
It really does look like Bridge Street. thank you ever so much
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That's a lovely photo by the way. Thanks for sharing.
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Old 15-11-2012, 10:05 AM
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I think that is Bridge Street.

See the layout on the 1897 map below. I've put an arrow on the camera view. Knox's Garage was built on this site. If it is the Bridge Street mineral works then the chimneys belong to the buildings shown in the street view photo (Image copyright Google © 2012)
Am I looking at the photo correctly, you've taken it from lower Queen Street and the main frontage would be round the corner in Bridge Street?
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Old 15-11-2012, 09:39 PM
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Default Burton and Richardson jug

Very pleased to see the Burton and Richardson bottle and the John Burton one - thank you. If anyone else finds one on the beach then please let me know!

I have a Royal Doulton jug - see photos.

Were these well known locally?

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Old 16-11-2012, 11:43 AM
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What a fantastic jug, I've never seen these before, but then the family didn't live in Amble then. Togston or Warkworth for us.
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Old 17-11-2012, 10:22 PM
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Am I looking at the photo correctly, you've taken it from lower Queen Street and the main frontage would be round the corner in Bridge Street?

Yes, sorry, I should have said that's the opposite side to the one shown in the Victorian photo.
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Old 17-11-2012, 10:27 PM
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Very pleased to see the Burton and Richardson bottle and the John Burton one - thank you. If anyone else finds one on the beach then please let me know!

I have a Royal Doulton jug - see photos.

Were these well known locally?

M

Delightful piece of advertising ware. Probably a 'pub jug' for holding water on the bar. You might have seen one of these in all the Amble pubs at the time. The modern equivalents are still there 'Whyte and Mackay Whisky' water jugs for instance. I have a bizarre one advertising Double Diamond, 'works wonders'.
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Very pleased to see the Burton and Richardson bottle and the John Burton one - thank you. If anyone else finds one on the beach then please let me know!

I have a Royal Doulton jug - see photos.

Were these well known locally?

M
Found an intact Bottle in dunes at Saltpans (Whitehouse Sands(
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Old 03-05-2013, 08:31 AM
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A very lucky find these days Leslie. well done.
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Found an intact Bottle in dunes at Saltpans (Whitehouse Sands(
Great find ... that's on of great grandpa's bottles
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Great find ... that's on of great grandpa's bottles
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Old 24-05-2013, 01:49 PM
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as promised also found broken one at Birling when field fence boundrt removed
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Old 26-05-2013, 10:11 AM
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The broken one probably broken deliberately by kids back in the day for the glass marble inside!
My grandmother could remember breaking "Codd"* bottles as a child for the marble I recall, when showing her my latest 'find' back in the 70's when I went looking for these things.

*Hiram Codd being the inventor.
on that page: 'His earlier bottles are prized by antique bottle collectors worldwide'


here's an Alnwick Brewery Codd bottle with a slightly different design to the 'pinches' in the neck for trapping the marble:

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Old 26-05-2013, 04:33 PM
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i remember breaking necks when we found them in fifties as you say prized for the muggies.
used to find the bottles often then
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Old 19-08-2013, 02:51 PM
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Default Bridge street premises of old pop factory

There is a deed of covenant on the property forbidding the sale of Ale and spirits
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Old 31-08-2013, 10:03 AM
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bought today at alnwick bootfair
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Old 06-09-2013, 07:27 AM
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Default The Wynd factory

I am putting together a time line for Burton and Richardson.

The first evidence of the partnership is an advert in the Morpeth Herald of 19 November 1892. This is for the letting of four and half acres of 'good garden ground'

The reply address is The Wynd Amble .. Is this the field to the NE of the foot of the Wynd?

Are there any photographs of the old buildings which appear to have been redeveloped?

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