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Shelvey's Mineral Water Manufactory
Between 1882 and 1931
Picture below of Katie Prevett outside her shop in Hove displaying a large Shelvey sign in the window. Picture kindly provided by Brian Prevett. If anyone knows which street this was in please let me know. Photo below of 2 bottles I obtained through ebay
Details of factories Text sourced from - http://aquabluemusic.users.btopenworld.com/ginger/page2.html
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Map of Factories
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The Guilford Factory is now a nightclub?
Whilst searching on Google for further
information on this subject I stumbled across a link referring to Shelvey
and Bar Mambo. You can find this by entering a search in www.google.co.uk
for - Shelvey bar mambo [PDF]BRIDGE STREET AREA APPRAISAL |
Pictures below of Bar Mambo, Bridge Street, Guildford (www.barmambo.com)
Pictures copied from http://www.turbosound.com/sites/mambo.html
Mystery of the wooden utensils inside a Shelvey
bottle.
Discovered on a huddersfield rubbish tip dating to around 1910
Pictures and information kindly sent in by Ian Kilroy.
Ian believes these may have been put in at the Factory, perhaps as some
sort of marketing gimmick? If you have any theories please let me know. |
Label has the BRI logo. The small print at the bottom states "Brighton, Eastbourne, Guilford, Worthing." Followed by "Sole Manufacturers" on the last line.
Check out the website "Swansea Bottles" which has some great pictures of Shelvey ginger beer bottles and information about bottles mostly from South Wales but also from Brighton. |
Many thanks to David Shelvey, Ron Shelvey and Chris Shelvey for bringing this subject to my attention and to all who have contributed information.