Bottle Clubs & Forums
A list of bottle clubs, bottle forums, and Facebook Groups
Clubs
Alton Bottle Collectors Club
01420 88773 2nd Wed
Community Centre, Alton, Hants GU34 1TB
Avon Collectors Club
0117 9673279 2nd Sun
Bristol Divers Club
Bolton BDCC
Joe Clarke 07747 380102 1st Thur
The Edge Tavern, Astley Bridge
Brigg ABCC
Brian Ashwell 01472 350653 2nd Wed 7.30pm
Brigg Town FC Grounds, Hawthorne Ave, Brigg
Chesterfield Old Bottle & Collectors Club
Wade 01246 472733 2nd Mon 7.15pm
The Stavely Miners Welfare, Stavely
Colchester Bottle & Collector’s Club
Neil Smith 07530 902905 last Thurs 7pm
Stanway Rovers FC, New Farm Rd, Stanway, Colchester CO3 0PG
Cornwall Bottle & Collector’s Club Oct-Apr
Fiona Clarke 01637 877456 1st Sat 2.00pm
Cornwall Antique Bottle Collectors Club
Rob Lawrance 07842 289176 1st Tues 6.30pm
The Beefeater, Carnon Downs
Cumbria Antique Bottle Club
M. Nichol 01697 371208
Joiner’s Arms, Newbiggin
Devon Collector’s Club
Rod Martin 01822 616503 last Fri 7.30pm
Dartmoor Lodge Hotel, Ashburton, Devon TQ137JW
Dorset Antique Bottle Collector’s Club
Mike Squires 01202 522047 1st Thurs 7.00pm
Kinson Community Centre, Millham’s Road, Pelham’s Park, Bournemouth
BH107LH
www.dorsetantiquebottleclub.com
www.instagram.com/dorsetbottleclub/
www.facebook.com/groups/1625786544361244
East Anglia Bottle Club quarterly
Colin Neale 01362 691070/0781071603
Woodman Pub, Old Catton, Norwich
Gloucester & Wiltshire Antique Bottle Club
01793 814241 last Sun 7.30pm
Beaufort Arms, Hawkesbury, Upton
Invicta/Kent Bottle Club
01622 814241 2nd Mon
Hollingbourne Village Hall, nr Maidstone
Leeds Antique Bottle Club
0113 579790 last Thur
Fox& Grapes, Smalewill Rd, Pudsey, Leeds
North Staffordshire & South Cheshire Bottle Club every other month
www.stokebottles.com/clup.php 8.00pm
The Red Bull, Congleton Rd S, Church Lawton, Stoke-on-Trent,ST7 3AJ
Northants Bottle Club
01833 272683 1st Tues
Bell Inn, Finedon
Northumberland & Durham Bottle Collectors Club
David Robertson 0191 2366736 fortnightly
Alternating meeting points
Oxfordshire Bottle Club
Simon Somerscales 01869 331464 1st Sun 7.30pm
Gardiner Arms, Tackley, OX5 3AH
Keith Wait 01285 652142
Portsmouth Bottle & Collector’s Club
Charlie Hayter 01243 371440 3rd Wed 7.30pm
Shrewsbury Bottle Club
John Thompson 07706 950725 last Tues 7.00pm (most months)
The Hare & Hounds Pub, Withington, SY4 4PY between
Shrewsbuy & Wellington
South Yorkshire Antique Bottle Club
Alan Bakeman 01226 745156 1st Tues
The Market, Elsecar
Surrey Bottle & Collectors Club
Kae Wicks 01306 882278 last Sat 7.00pm
Sussex Botte Collector’s Club
Charlie Hayter 01243 371440 1st Fri 7.00pm
The Bassil, Shippam Centre, Tozer Way, St Pancras,Chichester PO19
Trent Valley Bottle Club
JackFeast 01455 274678 last Thur 7.30pm
The Nurseryman,177 Derby Road, Beeston, Nottingham NG9 3A
Warwickshire Bottle Club
Albert Wilson 01926 400734 2nd Thur 6.00pm
Racing Club, Hampton Road, Warwick
Worcester Collector’s Club
01905 27663 1st Thur
The Brunswick, Worcester
Forums
The British Antique Bottle Forum
Bottledigging UK Forum
Australian Antique Bottle Forum
Antique Bottles (American based forum)
Facebook Pages & Groups
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Earlyglass for sale & show
Antique bottle collector magazine
Hair bottles & go withs
Martins antique bottles
Pitkin Page
Early American Glass collectors
Northeast bottle collector
Bottle digging finds northeast and uk
Dorset antique bottles
For bottle diggers and collectors
Hutchinson bottle collectors group
Soda bottle collectors group
Cream pots and poisons
Sheffield bottles and pots
Machine made bottle collectors page
Vintage machine made bottle collectors
Antique bottles wanted page
Fruit jar collectors
Bottle diggers uk
Cobalt blue bottles and glass
Embossed jar and bottle collectors
Society for clay pipe research
Metal detecting uk
Metal detecting over 18s
Digger dawn metal detecting group
Auction your detecting finds club
Skint Eastwoods metal detecting talk
Antique beer bottle collector
Antique bottle collector South Africa
Scottish bottle diggers and collectors
Antique old bottles for sale in South Africa
Codds, bullets glass minerals and beers
Pot lids
Bottle diggers and collectors
Bottle digging at its best
Kiwi vintage bottle collectors New Zealand
New Zealand bottle collectors
“Hardcore” stoneware collectors
Patent medicines of the 19th century
Porcelain sign trader
Bottle collectors
Insulator friends
Old tins and shop advertising
Talking + Selling antique bottles
Old bottles and stuff wanted and for sale
The poison bottle swap and shop
Benders insulator buy/sell/trade
Victorian bottles and bygones
Colleccionista de botellas Antiguas, Panama
World of antique inks
Old bottles of Great Britain. Buy sell swap & advertising items
Who dares wins bottles
Bottle digging uk, BDUK
Canadian antique bottles
19th century bottle diggers
Stoneware flagon collectors
Irish Antique bottle collectors club
The historical digging depot
Worldwide bottledigging group
International foods/jars/extracts...for show and sale
Oxfordshire antique bottle collecting club
Collecting Glass “figural” bottles and statuettes
Antique veterinary collectors
Bellarmine Bartmann and other early stoneware jugs/bottles
Case gin antique bottles
Stoneware ginger beer bottles of the US
Mud sweat and ginger beers
Antique ink bottles
Antique poison bottles
Antique poison bottles collectors association
Stoneware and pottery
Victorian caviar pots
Collecting American potlids
Ointment pots / lids
Prattware potlids
Scottish, Welsh and English bottle collectors
Chemist druggist pharmacist cure and vet bottle collectors world wide
Antique veterinary collectors
Canadian Bottle diggers
Old Dorset bottles & collectors
Irish antique stoneware & advertising collectors
Old New York bottles
California bottles 1850s-1870s
Antique labelled bottles and boxes
Milton Keynes Old Bottles & Flagons