Brings back memories… corona bottles were a source of income to local kids… 
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Never been bottled 
R Whites
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Local building sites at weekends when the workers weren’t there, armed with mum’s shopping bag and then off to the village grocery store to exchange them for pennies, think it was 3d in the mid 60’s.
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Yes, 3d charged as a deposit. They were a good income stream when you were 7 years old😉
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Yes, nicking empties off the pub delivery lorry whilst the draymen were in the cellar and taking them to the off licence which also sold sweets.
We used to spend our collection 2d on way to chapel every sunday morning on gobstoppers. Never crossed our little minds that the barman was a friend of our dad or he may have kept quiet but we never heard anything about it.
When I was an exchange student in Denmark we were let out early from high school on Fridays. In summer wed all go to the town park / lake and have beers. The other Aussie girl and I would collect up beer bottles and take them to the shop and have enough money to buy some! I think all our friends knew we didn’t have much money and saved them going 
Very cool system like a reverse vending machine!
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Returned Corona bottles used to help feed the family when I was a kid. Those few coppers were a lifeline although I didn’t understand at the time.
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Good post, there seems to be a good number of SF posters who’ve come a long way. My mother was widowed at 36 with two young kids and in those days no widow’s support, nor any relatives in the UK . However, it was only looking back as an adult that I realised how much she’d achieved and how she’d stubbornly worked so hard to give us a ‘normal’ childhood.
Stayed stubborn too till the day she died!
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It’s really helpful to look back occasionally. I am so grateful that we’ve managed to get an education, good jobs, afford a nice house to live in, food on the table, and all kinds of luxuries on top. Certainly life has been difficult for us at times, but we’ve never had brutal, inescapable poverty, and it’s been fantastic overall.
Me too! (trying hard not to be a feeble version of the MPFC - not a football club - Yorkshiremen’s sketch)
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