A day in Bath

A friend and I went to Bath on the bus. We got on at different stops, so it felt rather exciting, coordinating ourselves so we got on the same bus - a bit like an MI5 assignation maybe:)
If it had been warm and sunny we would probably have walked by the canal - but as it wasn’t, we went to the Museum of Work in Bath. A quirky and rather lovely place - mainly it’s about a Victorian brass manufacturer who made anything and everything in brass, and each item was created using a hand made mould into which the brass was poured. So labour intensive. He and his wife had 13 children, 12 of whom worked for him. So he diversified into making fizzy drinks. But they did everything - made the crates, printed the labels, made the branding irons for marking the crates, and made all the equipment needed in the process. So different from today.
A collage shows - the office, with handwritten invoices, a very early typewriter, and the company stamp. Then the revolving contraption for bottle washing, then a silhouette of various tools used in the brass manufacturing. The last one shows various different kinds of bottles for their fizzy drinks. Some had corks in. Others had a marble in the top, which you pressed down to release the drink. My mum told me about these from when she was a child in the 20s. She called them bollyompers.