Pill and drink bottles in the 50s and 60s were often returnable.
With pills from the doctor or chemist, the bottle was glass and one was
expected to return it – clean and without label – when empty; I think this
practise carried on (albeit that glass bottle changed to plastic) until maybe
20 years ago. With some soft drink bottles, one was refunded a deposit when the
bottle was returned (rinsed out) to the shop – I think that a Ribena was worth
2d (that is two old pence, the sign for penny being 'd' and not 'p' as nowadays)
and a soda syphon quite a lot more. A ‘lemonade man’ used to deliver soft
drinks and those bottles had refundable deposits too. There may have been deposits on beer bottles but I honestly cannot remember.
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