Historic Beer Bottle, T Taylor & Co, Returned to Timothy Taylor

Paul Reynard, using a metal detector, found a bottle near a Victorian building. The bottle had “T Taylor & Co” on it. His research showed the bottle was old, likely from 1860 to 1920.

He met Tim Dewey, Timothy Taylor’s CEO, at a butcher shop. Reynard showed Dewey a picture of the bottle, and Dewey asked Reynard to email him the pictures. They met at the brewery later, located at Knowle Spring.

Dewey gave Reynard’s dad a Timothy Taylor’s jacket in exchange for the old bottle find. Reynard was happy the company now had a piece of its history.

Reynard said the early history was limited, noting that T Taylor & Co. existed before 1929, when the company became Timothy Taylor & Co Ltd. Records did show this original name.

T Taylor & Co started the brewery, which Timothy Taylor founded in 1858. It was first located in Cooke Lane, Keighley.

In 2023, Reynard helped find gold coins worth £100,000, dating back to the 1500s, in a Northern Ireland field. A farmer asked Reynard and Michael Gwynne for help after losing his wedding ring while working. They used metal detectors to search.