Skip to content
  • home
  • map
  • search
Capturing Cambridge
  • search
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • Home
  • /
  • Projects
  • /
  • South Cambridge­shire
  • /
  • Sawston
  • Back Forward
Detail of a stoneware bottle with an oval black transfer print featuring a dog and text reading The Sawston Aerated Waters Co.

Sawston Aerated Water (MoC)

Sawston Aerated Water Company

History of Sawston Aerated Water Company

Possible location

Detail from an 1885 Ordnance Survey map showing pink-shaded buildings, roads, labelled almshouses, and scattered tree symbols.

Sawston OS 1885

In 1881 James Blake was living on the High Street, Sawston, near the Alms Houses. As this location was near the river, it seems possible that the aerated water factory was nearby.

1879

James Blake, manager, manufacturers of mineral and aerated waters

Beige stoneware bottle featuring a black circular logo inscribed with The Sawston Aerated Waters Company and Ginger Brewed Beer.

Sawston Aerated Water (MoC)

White and tan ceramic bottle with an oval black transfer print featuring a dog and text reading The Sawston Aerated Waters Co.

Sawston Aerated Water

1881

James Blake, 46, manager of the Sawston Aerated Water Co, b Isle of Wight

Mary,

Harry, 20. aerated water maker, b Middlesex

Ernest, 7, b Sawston

 

Projects

  • Museum Exhibit Stories
  • Sawston

Share this article

Share onFacebook Share onBluesky

Contribute

Do you have any information about the people or places in this article? If so, then please let us know using the Contact page or by emailing capturingcambridge@museumofcambridge.org.uk.

Licence

The text on this page is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

Sawston

16 Blossom Street

71 Sidney Street / 22 Petty Cury, Cambridge

West Wratting data

84 St Philip’s Road, Cambridge

7 Cambridge Place, Three Pigeons

documents

Madingley Hall

Gamlingay data

164 (72) Newmarket Road, Brown’s Yard

documents

2 Castle Street (100), White Horse Inn, Folk Museum, Museum of Cambridge

Burleigh House, Star Brewery, 13, 14, 15 Newmarket Road, Cambridge