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Nurse Harveys?

That looks to me like an old medicine bottle, I can remember going to the corner shop with one of those in the 40s for 2 oz of Indian Brandy for mi mam when she was having one of her monthly turns

russ i have got a few old bottles i had more but some got broke i live in spring view dont know if you know it? but a number of years ago there was a tale of a victorian tip near donky lane near the railway lines now unused,my daughters then boyfriend went over there to dig,he came across bottle after bottle some old smoking pipes not fully intact, bits of plates etc i think this place had already been excavated but he did get lots of pop bottles medicine bottles and think perfume bottles, i have got a pop bottle that was from bartons of ince and still has a glass marble in it i love it as im'e an incer,he found old marmalade mugs as well i wonder what still lyes there ? also i had a friend who bought a house in ince where factory fold was and she said when she came to dig the garden there were hundreds of bottles there i told her that where her house was built it used to be the star hotel and she was very surprised to know that, she didnt come from ince .

At one time, half of Ince was being used as a tip, at the bottom of Moat house Street was the main tip also one down the Greenfield Avenue, another was down by the side of Ince park, towards the Devils tunnel, you couldstill find the old stone flagons down there a couple of years ago, I think we were used as a dumping ground for nearly all of the Wigan area.

Josie, I'm from Platt Bridge, so I know just where you mean :)

I used to work at the glassworks in Platt Bridge and I can recall loads of things being buried on the back field of the factory, I often wonder what kind of stuff people have found since the houses went up. I remember a 15ft high packing machine getting buried there in the 80's, hope no ones digging their garden up and comes across it :)

Josie you posted on another picture a while ago of aldons in Platt Bridge, my mam worked there in the 70's and early 80's...Doreen Robie, do you remember her?

Hi Russ, What a find....considering you used to be surrounded by the things for many years at the Glass works. Would you believe 20 minutes before I saw this photo I was explaining markings on bottles we used to make to my son...while studying an empty lager bottle :-)

Hey John, how uncanny is that....I'd go back working there tomorrow :)