Vimto Bottle And Ingredients – Manchester, UK
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This sculpture of a bottle of a fruit drink and its constituent fruit contents is on the site of the original factory where it was first made in 1908.
Waymark Code: WMEAWB
Location: North West England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 04/29/2012
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John Noel Nichols originally made the drink as a health tonic in cordial form. It contains the juice of green grapes, raspberries and blackcurrants and also vanilla.
J.N. Nichols still sells Vimto, but these days it is manufactured under licence by other companies. The site of this first place of manufacture is now owned by the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (U.M.I.S.T.).
The sculpture was placed here in 1992 and was carved out of an oak tree from a sustainable forest by the sculptor Kerry Morrison.
Over the years the sculpture suffered badly from the weather and had started to rot. All the original paintwork had also faded away and some of the original pieces of fruit had also disappeared, it’s believed taken by students from the university.
In 2011 the sculpture was taken away for restoration by Acorn Furniture in Wrexham. When it was returned on 16th September 2011 the Great Grandson of John Nichols was there to welcome it back to its home.
This website shows how Acorn Furniture went about restoring the sculpture and trying to make it weather and vandal proof. (
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