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Rushden Mineral Water Company

Harborough Road.

This was not a shop or works, but more an agency. Orders were sent to the address or could be given to the delivery man.

They supplied a variety of drinks in stone jars or bottles or syphons.

This bottle has a pointed base so will not stand up.

Many health benefits were claimed for the various spa salts in the 1880s. Most were sold as carbonated waters, particularly for gout.

Seltzer Water

Lithia Water

Potass Water

Soda Water

Ginger Ale

Lemon Spruce

Ginger Beer

Pineapple Hop Ale

Raspberryade

Orange champagne

Lemonade

"Codd" bottle
A small stone jar
Rushden Mineral Water Company

It is thought the property eventually became a brewer’s agency, kept by Thomas Lack in the 1890s.

When Oldhams came to Rushden and opened a bottling works, this became a grocery and outdoor beer house.



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