SWINDON AERATED WATER CO, COLLEGE STREET, SWINDON
1879 - 1888
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SWINDON AERATED WATER COMPANY bottle dated to 1880-1888.
This is a Chapman's Patent Rubber Ball glass bottle with acid etched wording.
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College Street, New Swindon. 1886
Swindon Advertiser and North Wilts Chronicle - Monday 28 July 1879
Swindon Advertiser and North Wilts Chronicle - Monday 28 July 1879
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The Swindon Aerated Water Company was first known of in 1880 and operated in College Street, Swindon with Mr James Moncrieff listed as the company Secretary. The company was also a coal merchants but by 1888 they were no longer listed as trading as either. The information above is taken from 'A history of Swindon & District Mineral Water Manufacturers' by Peter Sheldon When the SMITH & POPE Ginger Beer business failed in 1879 BARKER created a cooperative of the local licensed Victuallers, purchased the old SMITH & POPE factory and produced Mineral Water under the name of The Swindon Aerated Water Company for the next nine years. 
Swindon Advertiser and North Wilts Chronicle - Saturday 21 June 1879
Closure in 1888 
London Gazette July 20 1888
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