2006
ST5038 : Victorian reservoir on Wellhouse Lane, Glastonbury
taken 18 years ago, near to Glastonbury, Somerset, England
Victorian reservoir on Wellhouse Lane, Glastonbury
This reservoir was built to collect the water of several unfailing springs that issue from the foot of Glastonbury Tor - a crumbling stone plaque between the middle two buttresses proclaims that it has a capacity of 137700 gallons. In the 1980s the building was (controversially) sold to a private businessman who set up a rather dank cafe within the windowless building and bottled the water to sell as Glastonbury Spring Water. I was interested to find that the cafe of my childhood memories is no more, and the building currently houses an all-welcoming "new age" shrine - see
ST5038 : New Age Shrine Glastonbury - described by its custodian as an "Avalonian temple beyond compare".
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