Over the bank holiday weekend we went on a guided walk of some of the local wells. Why go on a tour of the local wells? Well, (tee hee!) it was fascinating finding out stuff such as the reason why a stretch of wall near my mum’s house randomly has an arch is because it was once the site of a public water pump. I’ve blindly walked past this arch without giving a second thought while I was growing up and I would never have guessed that there was any more of a reason for the arch other than somebody sometime fancied one there.

This is relatively recent history (folks in St. Just still drank from wells & pumps up until the 1950s and 60s) and yet most of the sites have either been built over, capped or ruined by the various permutations over the years of the local water board.

The tour was by Rory Te’Tigo of the Stone Age Studio who has had a crack at uncovering and to an extent restoring a number of the local wells in the area.

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