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What do you do with the bottles you did up?
The bottle digging thread
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There are quite a few Maidstone bottles made for the Maidstone brewery's. I'm guessing they were made in Maidstone... I'm also interested in Kent bottles in general as the area is local to me.
There was a huge tip in Maidstone just a few years ago full of stunning London, Kent bottles among other things, it was like a bottle diggers paradise but the land belonged to a farmer who got very angry because bottle diggers left huge holes all over the place and one of the farmers tractors had fallen into a hole, they made a right mess of his land. Probably still plenty more there although its a well known tip but I'd be careful not to cross paths with the farmer lol.
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Pretty cool, people kept doing it on the town moor near me where it's illegal though.
so make sure your not breaking any law.
I always like seeing Bricks with local are names on, it's a shame local manufacturing disappeared and plastic replaced real bottles
so make sure your not breaking any law.
I always like seeing Bricks with local are names on, it's a shame local manufacturing disappeared and plastic replaced real bottles
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Display them, sell them, give others away... I'm mostly interested in Local bottles, I will display some, others I would pack away rapped in newspaper, if I have some common bottles or too many of something then I'd either donate some to charity or sell some. When you start digging bottles you end up accumulating so many of them very quickly.
Me and a few of my mates got caught bottle digging once, somebody called the police and I remember crapping myself wondering what was going to happen but after asking us all some questions the police left us to get on with it. We filled in the hole we dug and tidied up leaving the place neat.
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This one is cool, and there's a pub called The Style and Winch in the town which I'm guessing has something to do with the history of this.There are quite a few Maidstone bottles made for the Maidstone brewery's. I'm guessing they were made in Maidstone... I'm also interested in Kent bottles in general as the area is local to me.
There was a huge tip in Maidstone just a few years ago full of stunning London, Kent bottles among other things, it was like a bottle diggers paradise but the land belonged to a farmer who got very angry because bottle diggers left huge holes all over the place and one of the farmers tractors had fallen into a hole, they made a right mess of his land. Probably still plenty more there although its a well known tip but I'd be careful not to cross paths with the farmer lol.
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brilliant images there...... it is really good to see what is otherwise junk becoming somones treasure.... It is a shame those irresponsible few who do not make good afterwards spoil it for all...
my niece does magnet fishing which if done properly is a public service as it gets crap (well not the literal stuff deposited by the water companies) out of our water ways....... but those who do not dispose of the junk and clean up after themselves gives them a bad name.
my niece does magnet fishing which if done properly is a public service as it gets crap (well not the literal stuff deposited by the water companies) out of our water ways....... but those who do not dispose of the junk and clean up after themselves gives them a bad name.
I did magnet fishing for a little while but all's I found was modern tools and scrap metal. All the good stuff isn't magnetic like gold, brass silver copper. Its good for scrap metal people because they hit two birds with one stone cleaning out the waterways and making some money on the scrap. If I had a van to hull away the scrap metal I'd help out. I pretty much gave up with magnet fishing. I just do Mudlarking, Bottle Digging, Metal Detecting and Thrifting... as well as checking out carboot sales.