When did water first start being sold in bottles in the UK?
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Mar 2023
11:17am, 15 Mar 2023
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Ocelot Spleens
Is the story set in Peckham? I remember there was a fresh water spring nearby.....
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Mar 2023
11:27am, 15 Mar 2023
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paulcook
Someone in the seventies would be more likely to offer to fetch someone a glass of water. Have to say that crossed my mind too. |
Mar 2023
12:39pm, 15 Mar 2023
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Llamadance
this page says Schweppes started bottling and selling water in 1850/51 en.wikipedia.org There's a pic on the right of an early 20th century bottle |
Mar 2023
9:17am, 16 Mar 2023
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The_Saint
I think bottled water became a mainstream thing at the same time the "drink 8 glasses of water a day every die or drop dead on the spot" myth became a pretend fact - was this marketing for the bottled water?
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Mar 2023
9:20am, 16 Mar 2023
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The_Saint
Typo - "die" should be day. The one that strikes me as particularly idiotic is "By the time you feel thirsty - it is too late" - too late for what? Should I start making funeral arrangements? |
Mar 2023
9:28am, 16 Mar 2023
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Velociraptor
My favourite "You're All Dehydrated" moment was Dr Phil Hammond on the telly demonstrating that every time you have a caffeinated drink it counts as negative fluid intake. Those of us who drank nothing but Coke and coffee would have been dust if that were true. That was in the noughties, because I had a rant about it on a running forum at the time. #totallyofftopic |
Mar 2023
10:14am, 16 Mar 2023
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Steve NordRunner
Bottled water sold as a healthy alternative was covered in an episode of Sliced Bread not long ago bbc.co.uk
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Mar 2023
2:57pm, 16 Mar 2023
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BaronessBL
I agree with those who have said if you weren't feeling well in the 1970s you might have been offered a glass of water but not a bottle of water. I can remember Evian and Perrier starting to be marketed but also always being in big bottles of say a litre rather than small ones of 330ml and you'd be more likely to be offered one if you were eating out and they would ask 'would you like a bottle of water' to which we as kids were always told the answer to that question is 'no thank you just a glass of tap water please'!
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Mar 2023
5:28pm, 16 Mar 2023
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um
I suspect it was the mid 1980s that I stared re-using plastic bottles for water on Lake District walks.
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Mar 2023
5:43pm, 16 Mar 2023
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Paul N
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. Drinking water or holy water? In that era, water in a bottle in an Irish context would more likely be for blessing than ingesting. Unless of course it’s uisce beatha. |
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