It was 1977 august, myself and angelo Maloco got sole permission to empty Gilbert Rae Lemonade works was in operation from 1868-1948, the building was a typical old Victorian building as seen on their large tin signs, we hunted high and low for ginger beers with no luck ,so Angelo searched inside and all that was inside was Pattisons whisky jugs green topped with a conical shape,hundreds of different patents all on stacked shelves various types of stoppers, I was digging into the floor of an old part of the boiler house when hit metal plates on floor I manage to lifet one and it was like Alladin finding his treasure there was rows and rows of Ginger beers all green tops and red tops and blue tops all different companies as well as Gilbert Rae GBs and Guiness stouts, within an hour I dug out 1800 bottles and 90% were mint,50% still had original ginger in them..after we loaded what was there to take to a safe place we returned to old works and started to see what else there was ,,signs of metal and card, paperwork everything that a lemonade works would have,, it was as if we were in just after workers had left, they had an 1906 Mercedes Lorry, and a 1903 truck to deliver the lemonade, there was horses harness etc as well as Gilber Rae doing lemondade sodas in coloured syphons he was an inventer as well he invented a TamoShanter bicycle, and numerous other things we had a whole week to empty the building as demolishers were knocking it all down..grand total of 3000 ginger beers with Green tops,1800 Edwards patent
Hamiltons, coloured and aqua,,Guiness stouts 3with green tops other GBS with red tops, whisky jugs,, enamel signs, tin signs,was the best month of my life we manage to still dig about after demolishers left,,
The company of Gilbert Rae, aerated water manufacturers, was established around 1868 or 1869. The company was based at the Baldridge Works, Dunfermline, Scotland, but had branches in Alloa, Scotland, Falkirk, Scotland and Portobello, Scotland.
Gilbert Rae manufactured the following goods: ginger beer, ginger ale, ginger champagne (original introducer), sparkling ginger, lemonade, kola, potash water, seltzer water and lithia water. All of these were available in screw–method, glass–stoppered and corked bottles. Potash, soda and seltzer were also available in bottles and siphons.
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Gilbert Rae claimed to be the inventor of a number of appliances. He was the inventor of an appliance for the extraction of air from the water before carbonating, as well as the inventor and patentee of a germ–preventing syrup–filling appliance, a screw–top siphon bottle for the dinner table and a steam–power cork filling machine.
Hamiltons, coloured and aqua,,Guiness stouts 3with green tops other GBS with red tops, whisky jugs,, enamel signs, tin signs,was the best month of my life we manage to still dig about after demolishers left,,
The company of Gilbert Rae, aerated water manufacturers, was established around 1868 or 1869. The company was based at the Baldridge Works, Dunfermline, Scotland, but had branches in Alloa, Scotland, Falkirk, Scotland and Portobello, Scotland.
Gilbert Rae manufactured the following goods: ginger beer, ginger ale, ginger champagne (original introducer), sparkling ginger, lemonade, kola, potash water, seltzer water and lithia water. All of these were available in screw–method, glass–stoppered and corked bottles. Potash, soda and seltzer were also available in bottles and siphons.
Gilbert Rae claimed to be the inventor of a number of appliances. He was the inventor of an appliance for the extraction of air from the water before carbonating, as well as the inventor and patentee of a germ–preventing syrup–filling appliance, a screw–top siphon bottle for the dinner table and a steam–power cork filling machine.
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