When did water first start being sold in bottles in the UK?

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Paul N
Paul N
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There is also this angle

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Eynsham Red
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We had a holiday in Spain in about 1965 and took bottles of Vichy water with us in case we couldn’t buy any in Spain (which we were able to) because it was advised not to drink the tap water in those days.
Dave.O
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According to Google 1622 by the Holy Well bottling plant
Pale Skinny Vegan
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My earliest memory of it is when a friend of mine used to carry 'bottled water' with her to share with her dog in the late 1980s.
The joke being that only rich gullible people paid for water in bottles and she was giving it to a dog.
It was, of course, an old bottle refilled with tap water. I'm sure it wasn't normal for ordinary people to buy water in a plastic bottle and carry it around all day back then.

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I know this is a very specific question but an initial bit of googling hasn't provided the answer.

i'm currently proof reading the draft of a novel a friend of mine has written. It's about poor Irish immigrants to London and seems to be set pre-decimalisation (before 1971).

But she has a line where someone who isn't feeling well is offered a bottle of water. Thing is, as a child in the 1970s I have a vague recollection of hearing about how some company called Perrie...

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