Friars Street
Subject: Business and Industry
Gallery: Up to 1970
Catalogue ref: pa233
Bloys’ soda water bottling works in Friars Street on the corner with School Street c1920. L to R: George Sweppe Bloys, ? , Benjamin Macro Bloys and Mr Challis up on the waggon.
All these buildings are still standing; the single storey building in the centre where the actual bottling was done still retains its overhead drive shafts and belts. The stables on the right was where the horse and delivery waggon were kept.