LARGE 2 Gallon SODA WATER Crock WINDMILL Logo Bottle Jar C. E. BEAVIS Bristol UK

Charles Edward Beavis was born in St. Augustine, Bristol in the first quarter of 1848. His father George was a Dorsetshire born Shipping Agent from Fordington. It appears that Charles Edward was the 5th child of a large family

Although the claimed establishment date of the aerated water manufactory is 1879, in the 1881 census Charles is listed as a Milk seller at Redcliff Cottage, Bryant Street, Redcliff

Mineral waters may have been an addition to this business, or he may have bought a previously established business

By August 1887 Charles is certainly a Mineral Water Manufacturer at Langton Street, Cathay, St. Mary Redcliffs

He was a director of the National Union of Mineral Water Manufacturers, and was for many years on the executive of the Bristol and West of England Mineral Water Manufacturers' Association.

In addition to making mineral water, he contributed to the city's industries by the making of machines of which he was sole inventor and patentee, for the mineral water trade.

These machines were exported to all parts of the world

Pictured FOR SCALE PURPOSES ONLY beside a small standard-size Schweppes Ginger Beer bottle, and a "usual" large-size (1 gallon) stoneware crock

CONDITION is exactly as-seen in my many images

Displays wonderfully as most of the several "smallish" chips & cracks are out-of-sight

ONLY the BIGGEST crock jar is offered here

SIZE = Stands 15" tall

The others bottles will be listed separately

My listed POSTAGE charges are a GUESS

I will REFUND if it should prove cheaper to send (NZPO prices are skyrocketing) and this will NEED to be packed very safely to ensure it arrives in the same condition as sent