TUNBRIDGE WELLS

C. Ansell & Co., 48 Little Mount Sion, Tunbridge Wells

Label: C.E. ANSELL SUPERIOR GINGER BEER HOME BREWED TUNBRIDGE WELLS

Height: 17.0 cm
Closure: Screw-top
Colour: Plain; black print
Maker’s mark: DOULTON LAMBETH

Label: ANSELL & CO.SUPERIOR GINGER BEER HOME BREWED TUNBRIDGE WELLS

Height: 17.0 cm
Closure: Screw-top
Colour: Top (above shoulder) yellow-brown; bottom (below shoulder) plain; black print
Maker’s mark: BOURNE DENBY

District Supply Aerated Water Co., Tunbridge Wells

Label: DISTRICT SUPPLY AERATED WATER CO HOME BREWED GINGER BEER ROYAL TUNBRIDGE WELLS

Height: 19.0 cm
Closure: Cork
Colour: Top (above shoulder) yellow-brown; bottom (below shoulder) plain; black print
Maker’s mark: None

Height: 21.6 cm (“dumpy” shape)
Closure: Swing top
Colour: Top (above shoulder) yellow-brown; bottom (below shoulder) plain; black print
Maker’s mark: None

Dunkley & Rogers, 55-57 High Street, Tunbridge Wells

Label: DUNKLEY & ROGERS SUPERIOR GINGER BEER BREWED TUNBRIDGE WELLS

Height: 17.2 cm
Closure: Screw-top
Colour: Top (above shoulder) yellow-brown; bottom (below shoulder) plain; black print
Maker’s mark: •BOURNE DENBY

Label: DUNKLEY & ROGERS CHEMISTS TUNBRIDGE WELLS

Height: 16.2 cm
Closure: Screw-top
Colour: Top (above shoulder) yellow-brown; bottom (below shoulder) plain; black print
Maker’s mark: STIFF K LAMBETH

Label: DUNKLEY & ROGERS TUNBRIDGE WELLS BREWED GINGER BEER

Height:
Closure: Screw-top
Colour: Top (above shoulder) yellow-brown; bottom (below shoulder) plain; black print
Maker’s mark: 

The Grove Spa Mineral Water Cos., L^td., 48 Little Mount Sion, Tunbridge Wells

Label: THE GROVE SPA M. W. C^OS L^TD TUNBRIDGE WELLS SUPERIOR GINGER BEER HOME BREWED

Height: 17.0 cm
Closure: Screw-top
Colour: Top (above shoulder) yellow-brown; bottom (below shoulder) plain; black print
Maker’s mark: [........] & Co LIMITED 40 [illegible]

Langley – see below (after Tuddenham Brothers)

Elizabeth Lyle, Weston Road, Tunbridge Wells (later 13 Newton Road)

Alexander Lyle, Garden Street, Tunbridge Wells (also Calverley Street)

Label: LYLE’S UNRIVALLED BREWED GINGER BEER TUNBRIDGE WELLS PLEASE REPLACE STOPPER AND RETURN WHEN EMPTY (LYLE on neck)

Height: 19.4 cm
Closure: Screw-top (stopper marked LYLE 07)
Colour: Top (above shoulder) yellow-brown; bottom (below shoulder) plain; black print.
Maker’s mark: SKEY TAMWORTH (rest uncertain)

Label: LYLE’S UNRIVALLED BREWED GINGER BEER TUNBRIDGE WELLS PLEASE REPLACE STOPPER AND RETURN WHEN EMPTY (LYLE on neck)

Height:
Closure:
Colour: Top (above shoulder) yellow-brown; bottom (below shoulder) plain; black print.
Maker’s mark: 

Label: LYLE’S UNRIVALLED BREWED GINGER BEER TUNBRIDGE WELLS PLEASE REPLACE STOPPER AND RETURN WHEN EMPTY

Height: 16.8 cm
Closure: Screw-top
Colour: Top (above shoulder) yellow-brown; bottom (below shoulder) plain; black print.
Maker’s mark: None

NB. The above label known with both standard and champagne shaped bottles.

The Lyle’s also had a branch in Windsor that used bottles with a label virtually identical except for the location.

Tuddenham Brothers, 1A Standen Street, Tunbridge Wells

Label: TUDDENHAM BROS. PURE HOME BREWED GINGER BEER TUNBRIDGE WELLS PLEASE REPLACE THE STOPPER AND RETURN WHEN EMPTY

Height: 17.3 cm
Closure: Screw-top
Colour: Top (above shoulder) yellow-brown; bottom (below shoulder) plain; black print
Maker’s mark: BOURNE DENBY

Langley & Tuddenham, 1A Standen Street, Tunbridge Wells

Label: LANGLEY & TUDDENHAM PURE HOME BREWED GINGER BEER TUNBRIDGE WELLS PLEASE REPLACE THE STOPPER AND RETURN WHEN EMPTY

Height: 16.9 cm
Closure: Screw-top
Colour: Top (above shoulder) yellow-brown; bottom (below shoulder) plain; black print
Maker’s mark: BOURNE DENBY

Richard Langley, 1A Standen Street, Tunbridge Wells

After taking control of Langley & Tuddenham, Langley traded independently 1899-1900 as R. Langley Mineral Water Co., then sold out to the Sussex firm of R. Fry &Co.

Label:

Height:
Closure:
Colour: Top (above shoulder) yellow-brown; bottom (below shoulder) plain; black print
Maker’s mark:

W. A. Waters, 28 Salisbury Road, Rusthall, Tunbridge Wells

Label: W.A.WATERS SUPERIOR HOME BREWED GINGER BEER RUSTHALL TUNBRIDGE WELLS

Height: (1) 17.2 cm (2) 16.4 cm (3) 16.2 cm
Closure: Screw-top
Colour: Top (above shoulder) yellow-brown; bottom (below shoulder) plain; black print
Maker’s mark: (1) & (3) None (2) THE POTTERY FULHAM

Alfred Young, Rusthall, Tunbridge Wells

Label: ALFRED YOUNG HOME BREWED GINGER BEER RUSTHALL TUNBRIDGE WELLS

Height: 17.3 cm
Closure: Screw-top
Colour: Plain; black print
Maker’s mark: None

TUNBRIDGE WELLS and ST. LEONARDS

W. Fyson & Co., Tunbridge Wells (local address unknown but the St. Leonards premises were located at the Bohemia Works) (see also Tonbridge)

Label: FYSON’S GINGER BEER WORKS:- TUNBRIDGE WELLS AND ST. LEONARDS

Height:
Closure: Screw-top
Colour: Top (above shoulder) yellow-brown; bottom (below shoulder) plain; black print
Maker’s mark: 

Last updated: 8 December 2016

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