Look what we found (non VW)

We’ve been digging up the wilderness that passes for our garden, which is the site of a demolished school. We’ve found ‘relics’ before but nothing as exciting as this.
Anyone an idea on date?


It’s tricky to see on the photos but it says ‘Esso’ on the main body and ‘Contents one pint’ around the neck.
I’m guessing a bottle for oil.
We’re really chuffed, especially my step-daughter who found it, as before we’ve only found little milk bottles given to school children.

 

Cool find , definitely an oil bottle - possibly pre WW2 era ..?

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That’s a neat object.

 

Sorted!

 

1930's, the later ones had coloured prints on the glass ..rather than embossed lettering in the glass .

 

We’ve just found a 1931 ha’penny so that ties in with your date.

 

Nice find!

 

Why did people of the past bury things? Seems an unusual thing to do.

"I don't need this old bathtub anymore, so I will dig a big hole in the garden and bury it"

 

There weren’t any council recycling centres maybe? I thought the rag and bone men did collections.

I guess they had far less to simply discard like us lot.

 

That's what I thought- the trotters were out and about, although burying stuff is still discarding it, albeit a bloody big effort.

I suppose that's because the canals were already full of junk, in preparation for northerners to take up magnet fishing?

 

Out of site out of mind

 

Few tears back a kitchen fitter and his wife rented house opposite. The owners sold the house and new owners found masses of old kitchen off cuts and fittings buried in the back garden, must have been more effort than taking the stuff to the local recycling. Folks eh?

Re old bottles, the old 40's and 50's council tip across the road, which is now woodlands, is a good place to dig up bottles and jars. No plastic in those days and the tip is now peppered with excavation pits from the local detectorists and collectors.

 

There were no amenity sites then ..quite often rubbish was buried in the bottom of a garden especially if it is big .
Towns had what is called a dumble ...where folks used to dump rubbish bottles glass and the like .

This is where old bottle hunters go for ...and churn the ground over to lift up old classic bottles .
The increase in population put pay to this method .

 

The tip opposite was an old Victorian brickworks and the local council did a deal with the land owner and dumped the local dust cart rubbish and gas works waste into the old clay pits. I don't dig it myself, but the bottle collectors leave rows of the ones they don't want and I pick a few from time to time. The land owner made even more money when the Forestry Commission clay capped and tree planted it in the 1960's. Its now a plantation woodland with more than 3000 trees, its wonderful and full of wildlife. Its become my local walk and twitching patch. That's where the Buzzards nest is and they have plenty of food in the form of birds, rodents and squirrels.

 

Is this why Kent is called the garden of England, it’s actually the dumping ground?

I’d imagine there’s a fair amount discarded onions and garlic cloves from our French cousins too.

 

Its not the garden of England anymore, its more and more housing for commuters and motorways. The old hop gardens and fruit orchards are long gone and the oast houses and fruit farms are now homes for the rich city bankers.

 

I’d heard it was full of absolute bankers.


Or was that Surrey?

 

There used to be a school building where we’ve digging out nettles and weeds, found the old foundations and bits of wall. I’m guessing these weren’t buried on purpose, more sort of lost and covered over. It’s a miracle the bottle hasn’t broken over the years.

 

Local rumour has it that the house two doors up from me has a mini buried in the back garden.

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