Lemonade bottle
Foster Clark Ltd
Category
Historic Services / Food & drink preparation
Date
circa 1910 - circa 1950
Materials
Glass
Place of origin
Maidstone
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Wicken Fen, Cambridgeshire
NT 82647
Summary
A clear glass bottle, square body, with screw top but no cap. Impressed mark 'Eiffel Tower Lemonade, Foster Clark Ltd, Maidstone'. The now world-wide brand, Foster Clark, was started in Maidstone in 1891 by George Foster Clark, aged 27. He had experimented for a couple of years in the making baking powder and lemonade powder in his mother's kitchen which he then sold in Thomas Carpenter's grocery shop where he worked. Having left the grocery store he set up in business in a small shed with his two brothers, William and Henry, selling grocers' sundries. Capitalising on the enormous popularity of the Eiffel Tower which had recently been erected in Paris for the Exhibition of 1889 he registered the name Eiffel Tower as his lemonade trademark. Sales soared and the name of Foster Clark and the trade name Eiffel Tower became household words throughout the country.
Provenance
Anonymous donation to the National Trust for the furnishing of Fen Cottage.
Makers and roles
Foster Clark Ltd, drinks manufacturer