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Old bottle stopper. R. White’s lemonade was first made in Camberwell, south London, in 1845, and is still popular today.

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Piece of glass with the letters H.D. R…

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Letter H on a beer or wine bottle.

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Broken crockery or pot sporting the word ‘Gland’. Presumably ‘Made in England’.

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Piece of glass with the letters H.D. R…

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Piece of scaffold. Rented out by Layher UK, a company based in Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire. Clearly whoever rented this out didn’t return it.

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A Warnham brick. Made at the Warnham brickworks in Horsham, Sussex, these are still in production today. 

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Char pig lettering. Not sure what the full wording was, but it appears to have been on a drinking vessel. Found on the Hammersmith shore among lots of beer/alcohol related debris close to the Blue Anchor pub.

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Starworks Glenboig brick, made by the Glenboig Union Fireclay Company in the East End of Glasgow, founded in the mid 1800s. The firm seems to have closed around 1966. Glenboig specialised in the production of heat resistant furnace-lining bricks for the iron and steel industry, and this brick was found on the shore close to the old Morgan Crucible works in Battersea.

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Helped out this sweet chunk of flotsam with the aid of Chicago Bird Collision Monitors (and found a few poems in glass and brick, too). 12th Street Beach, Chicago.

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Nina Könnemann at House of Gaga

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“A.P.” Brick from Museum campus (Chicago, IL).

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“GO / A,” from 12th St. Beach, Chicago

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Bricks from 12th Street Beach (Chicago, IL).

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Brick with letters AN.

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Brick with letters MAN. Now things become clearer (see previous post)…

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“X ROYAL,” from Stanley Park, Vancouver, BC.