Identify bottle / sign and offer a date?

[Essenchill]

I was going to post image scans of the bottle to 9200dpi in jpeg and in bmp but both files are way too large to post on here, jpeg itself is 799KB and bmp is 15.7mb!  Haven't managed to compress.

[Serge]

Hi Essenchill.I think your photo is from the mid 50`s judging by the clothes they are wearing.Did you notice the reflection in the left hand window,it looks like a "Char-a-banc" to me.It`s possible the lads have stopped off at a half way house,and have just borrowed the lady for the photo (she looks a bit embarrassed).All the years I worked for breweries (hic) these days out were called "Jolly boys outings" assuming this is what they are. As well as being interested in genealogy I also used to collect beer labels,so I am including a scan of a Hull brewery label from the 50`s.I hope this is of interest.

Cheers Serge.

[Henry7]

I started work in 1950, and from the clothes and haircuts these chaps look like men in my office, at around that time.

Loud ties, like the one on the right, were all the rage among young blokes, likewise Windsor knots.  I had a tie then something like the other one in the front row - mine was in big red and yellow checks, and quite unlike my father's sober pre-war ties. 

So I'd make a guess at the date as c1950-1952.   

[Berlin-Bob]

How about sending a copy of the picture to Seven-Sea (there is a contact address on the website mentioned earlier) and asking them if they know anything ?

Bob

ps: and a link to this topic too 

[HeatherLynne]

Or how about sending a copy of the photo to a bottle collecting forum or similar?  Someone who's collected one of those bottles might recognise it instantly 

If they're out on a works outing it wouldn't be very jolly with only one bottle to share!  Would the licensee's name be over the door if they were standing in front of a pub or bar in the 1950's?

Seems to me more likely the photo is marking either the launch or anniversary of the product in the bottle and they've all had a hand in its production.

Do we have any idea of Grandad's occupation yet Essenchill?

[Rena]

The building doesn't remind me of the old Infirmary on Prospect Street, but it looks remarkably like Seven Seas on Hedon Road. 

The bottle looks more like it should hold alcohol rather than sauce and the group look like they're celebrating something.  The lady with the white pinafore looks like she could be a "silver service" waitress.

Excepting for teenagers, of course, the hairstyles and the jumper were all prelavent in the late 1950's.  In 1959 the Hull Brewery  produced a 1959 commemorative bottle for Guiness (is good for you).  The blob on the label could well be the harp depicted on this jpeg.

[Evie]

Hi

I wonder if it might be worth contacting Paul Gibson

http://www.paul-gibson.com/

evie

[Essenchill]

Marriage certificate for Grandfather has arrived today, at the time of marriage in 1931 he was listed as a fish worker.  I'm not sure this leads us anywhere particularly useful in this instance!

[ScouseBoy]

Marriage certificate for Grandfather has arrived today, at the time of marriage in 1931 he was listed as a fish worker.  I'm not sure this leads us anywhere particularly useful in this instance!

Very fishy, if you ask me.