WHEN Margaret Lammas re-discovered a mystery bottle she had kept for over 35 years, she became determined to find out its history.

The 70-year-old, from Fockbury Mill Lane, Bromsgrove, first kept the medicine bottle when she worked at TW Austins chemist.

Margaret worked at the High Street chemist for 25 years. She started working there at the age of 27.

Customers used to bring their old bottles back for recycling and re-use.

The bottle is a small clear container with a tablespoon measure on the side and it used to have a cork stopper. Writing on the back reads Watt Chemist, Bromsgrove.

Margaret said: "I have had the bottle for 35 years, I kept it when I left. I cannot find out where it has come from. It interested me because no one knew anything about it. I want to find out more."

She has spoken to medicine bottle collector Sam Bright, from Bromsgrove, who also does not know of the artefact's origin.

Council leader Dennis Norton, who owns a medicine bottles collection at Bromsgrove Museum, said: "I am sure I have a bottle from that chemist. I think it would have been before 1914."

He says Margaret should go to Bromsgrove Library and look in the old directories in the hope of finding where the chemist was based.

Anyone with information about the bottle can call Margaret on 01527 876368.