TSG's Chapel and it's pop drinks history

SamT

Moderator
Not sure if you can split topics, but the Chapel was defintely a bottle factory at some stage. (Not entirely sure if they made the bottles there, or just filled them).

G. Boam and Thompson,
G. Boam and Sons

See attached pics of my two.

Bizzarly, I found the brown one in black well dale. . at the 'Beginnners Wall' crag. I went for a piss in the bushes and it was sat on a ledge of a rocky outcrop behind some ivy right infront of my nose.

Found the 'Thompson' one in Bradwell dale on tbe left as you go out the village whist looking at the old smelting flue.

A local from Castleton reckons nobody has ever heard of a Thompson in relation to the chapel buts its clearly there on the Bottle.

Think Eddie Mason has done some digging (ha) into the history.

Wish I had one with the marble still intact.
 

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mikem

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Some Castleton history (pdf) by Peter Harrison says (although this presumably isn't 100% accurate):
Over the road and opposite the school is a wooden single-storey shed attached to a well-built, dressed limestone, two storied building. It was built as a Primitive Methodist Chapel. The Methodists moved elsewhere and the Chapel was sold to George Boam and Sons. They established a mineral water factory in the Chapel so it became known as “The Pop Shop”. Eventually the Boam’s sold out to the Ackroyd brothers (John and Henry) who continued the business until the mineral water business closed completely.
The Pop Shop, as it had by then become known, was used by the Kelsey’s, (Drury and his son John) as a furniture store. Their furniture shop was in Swiss House on How Lane. When Kelsey’s moved their storage facilities from the Pop Shop to the Peak Pavilion the Pop Shop was sold to The British Speleological Association. (B.S.A.) and it became their headquarters. In 1974 The B.S.A. merged with The Cave Research Group. (C.R.G.) All their records etc. are now stored in the Pop Shop. It is still the headquarters of Cavers, Cave Divers and Pot-holers and the Society is now The Technical Speleological Group. (T.S.G.)
 
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