Do you remember this drink? If so that’s slightly hard luck, for you are getting on a bit. It’s hard to discover precisely when production stopped. The firm that made this ‘drink’ ceased production in the mid-1960s but we have seen a reference to people still drinking it in the early 70s.
We have a bottle which once contained the product at Market Lavington Museum.
Eiffel Tower Lemonade Bottle at Market Lavington Museum
The bottle is clear glass – it has picked up colour from the backdrop here. It is also small. If it contained the actual drink it wouldn’t have done much thirst quenching. What it actually contained was crystals.
The crystals could be dissolved in water to make a syrup and that was then diluted to taste, like bottles of ordinary squash.
Our curator remembers that his family used to have it on camping holidays. There was only the small bottle to carry to the camp site. It could be made up there and it made a delightful sweet drink for the children in the family. And of course, our curator was one of those children.
Actually, he doesn’t remember the bottles and thought the crystals came in sachets, but that may be because his interest was in drinking the stuff, not making it up.
Lots of people, including our curator, remember the taste with great affection. These days we are trying to reduce the sugar intake of our youngsters. Back then it seemed to be used with great abandon and no doubt Eiffel Tower was high in sugar.
Back to our bottle. One side of it is embossed with the name of the product.
The other side has the manufacturer’s name.
That’s Foster Clark Ltd of Maidstone.
You can read a bit of the fascinating history of the company by clicking here – http://www.fosterclark.com/birth-brand?l=1
This little bottle is sure to bring back memories of lovely, sunny, summer days for many people.
Tags: 1890 - 1970, bottle, Eiffel Tower, glass, lemonade
Market Lavington Museum 
August 14, 2016 at 5:50 pm |
Hi We have just dug up an Eiffel Tower lemonade bottle whilst digging a hole in the verge outside our house. There was a ditch which was filled in in 1931 when our house was built in Boston Lincolnshire
August 14, 2016 at 6:17 pm |
Lovely. Enjoy the bottle and send my regards to Maude the Mill!
Rog
Curator
February 5, 2017 at 6:15 pm |
just found one in woods at liskeard today Cornwall nice little bottle with screw top //but no top //with i will fill with lemon crystals
when i can get some and a nice new top ready for the food cupboard date 5/2/2017
March 9, 2017 at 6:29 pm |
Found one in garden in North cotes
April 11, 2017 at 11:31 pm |
Your Curator is partly right right. Eiffel Tower Lemonade Crystals was exactly what it say’s It was sold as crystals, which were then mixed in water. I made gallons of it for my kids in the 1960s. They remember it very well. It was delicious. I can’t remember if it was in individual packets.
April 15, 2017 at 5:25 pm |
Just dug up a green one in Devizes, Wiltshire. Foster Clark Ltd Maidstone on one side and Eiffel Tower Lemonade on the other. Unfortunately it’s cracked, but I’ll still keep it.
May 15, 2017 at 1:04 am |
A broken bottle found in the deserted township Beria.Western Australian Goldfields Did the miners bring them from England in the late 1800 ? And I would like to know more
May 20, 2018 at 8:04 pm |
I just dug one up yesterday in the vegetable garden of the 1800s house I bought in January on the Isle of Wight. Foster Clarke Maidstone on one side, Eiffel Tower Lemonade on the other. Clear glass perfect condition but no cap……and no lemonade crystals!
October 29, 2018 at 5:25 pm |
I found one last year in Jersey!!
August 6, 2020 at 1:12 am |
I just dug (05/08/2020) one of these delightful little bottles up from collapsed sea wall in Havant, unfortunately it was broken but the markings are still clearly visible on both sides! Obviously a rubbish dump in the past as also found a large amount of old Shippam’s paste jars, an old Forsters Glass Company Bovril jar and a few old Hienz bottles, also found part of a Frank Cooper 1874 marmalade jar!