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

This work is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 not including content on external links as indicated byexternal link.

Sawston

20 Silver Street, Brown’s Livery Stables

The George / The George and Dragon / La Mimosa, Richmond Terrace

Caxton Data

11 Churchgate Street, Soham, Saracen’s Head

Clay Street, Histon

167, Bahia Cottage, Gwydir Street

1 Abbey Cottages (Abbey Place)(Snows Cottages), Abbey Street, Cambridge

Hobson’s Conduit, Cambridge

Falcon Yard, Petty Cury, Cambridge

documents

181, Dales Brewery, Gwydir Street, Cambridge