Codd's wallop...

The rain and melting snow off the roof behind the garage has washed a lot of soil away in the hedge and exposed this long abandoned pop bottle.  The flower motif is interesting and makes me wonder if it was a pop bottle.  Maybe Dandelion and Burdock?

Looks like it was a Codd's bottle as the neck has been snapped off to retrieve the glass stopper which the children of the time used for marbles.  Codd patented the bottle in the late 1872 and the clever method of construction prevented the gases from leaking during storage, making it ideal for fizzy drinks.  The hard Porter drinking men of the day nicknamed the contents "Codd's Wallop" and it became a common term for (talking) rubbish or nonsense.

The raised lettering reads;
'T Sutheran, 
Registered Trade mark'
Houghton le Spring. 

The bottle was probably made at Ayres Quay or Seaham Harbour glass works.