Branching out the scope of the website a little I though I’d share something with you all. This item is from another place which I hold dear, Dumfries and Galloway… But I promise I will post some Teesside & North Yorkshire relevant items soon!

There’s lots of little items which hold meaning and have connection to localities…
One such are bottles, which more often than not contain a branding of what was in them and who produced it…

In Dumfries there’s a grand looking building on the Whitesands, next to a pool hall. It’s fallen into disuse now but this building was the aerated waterworks of Armstrong & Dickie. The works was built around an artesian well in the Dockhead area of Dumfries. It was designed by Dumfries architect Wilfred Fitzalan Crombie, they were so proud of the building they used its likeness on their bottles for a while too. The water works eventually passed to the Workington Brewery Co Ltd…