Rockett
Herbert Rockett is listed as a ginger beer
manufacturer in the 1852 directory and is likely to have been operating for
some years prior to this date, his premises were at
Recovered bottles are rare but include
impressed ginger beer bottles (in salt glaze and slip glaze) and codd bottles
in both 6oz & 10oz sizes. The codd bottles bear the Rylands & Codd
trade mark making them easily dateable to the late 1870s.
Interestingly, the codd bottles bear the
licence number 564 which is later used by G.Crocker whose operating dates follow
directly on from those of Rockett and whose premises were in the same street.
Thus it may be assumed that Crocker took over the operations of Rockett in
1881.
Herbert Rockett codd bottles bearing licence
number 564