‘Saweard of Grimsby’, bulb neck Codd bottle 1880s-1908.
A rare ‘Saweard of Grimsby’, bulb necked, aqua glass Codd bottle. The bottle is undamaged.
Joseph William Saweard was born in Greenwich, Kent on 16th June 1851. His parents were Joseph Saweard Sr, mariner, and Maria Bingham Saweard. Joseph William Saweard was in the British Army in 1871. Later in the 1870s, he was a fisherman at Grimsby, living at 86 Kent Street. In 1881, aged 28, he was a master mineral water manufacturer (employing one boy) boarding at 60 Strand Street. At other times in the 1880s, he was living at 174 Hainton Street (later Avenue), 114 & 115 Willingham Street and 14 Orwell Street (ginger beer manufacturer). It appears that Joseph may have benefitted from the estate of Mr Thomas Paul, deceased licensed victualler, late of 8 Helens Terrace, Hainton Street.
Joseph William Saweard’s mineral water business became bankrupt in 1908. His addresses were given as 28 Oxford Street and the back of 102 Kent Street.
Joseph William Saweard of 114 Willingham Street married Charlotte Jane Montague (born Greenwich, Kent) of 53 Orwell Street, the daughter of a Grimsby ship builder, at Old Clee Church on 30th March 1886. They lived at 174 Hainton Street, 60 Strand Street and then at 28 Oxford Street with their children, Lottie Saweard (1887-1978 Grimsby), William Montague Saweard (1889-1977 Louth) and Lucy Louisa Saweard (1897-1988 Louth).
Joseph William Saweard, of 51 Ainslie Street, died in Grimsby on 20th September 1913. Charlotte Jane, of 51 Littlefield Lane, died on 14th November 1926. (Both of Joseph’s parents came up to Grimsby from Kent and died in 1898 and 1896.)
Note: In 1895, J. W. Saweard was secretary of the Grimsby and District Canine Society.
Note: Lesley J. Saweard (born 13th August 1934), an actress who played Christine Barford in the long-running BBC radio soap opera, ‘The Archers’, from 1953 until 2019 is the daughter of William Montague Saweard and Hilda Louisa Saweard (née Kiddle). So the bottle in the photo once belonged to Lesley’s grandfather!
Research by Grimsby & Cleethorpes Museum.
