Bottles held a fascination after rubbish tip discovery

When teenagers Mark and Simon Fletcher came across a Victorian ginger beer bottle sticking out of the ground in the garden of their new home at Old Clee, near Grimsby, 40 years ago little did they know that a collecting bug was about to bite.

They discovered an old rubbish tip that would yield a treasure trove of bottles and trigger a coll…

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