![]() ![]() ![]() No sign still of anything like Frank’s photo above however, I think the sediment needs to be removed and a long period of dryness required. I thought at first that the well itself had been gone, but some focusing on the area revealed it still remained but the spring head brickwork looked more dilapidated and the railings gone. Especially as taking a walk….I found….Ī recent visit found all the trees uprooted and channels made to drain the pool above. I hope one day that the land the well is on can be purchased and the site repaired and this photo will help I feel in that venture. ![]() What the photo does go to show is the importance of those pictures taken by ‘amateur’ well enthusiasts…keep photographing. The Ash tree which damaged the well, post Frank’s photo circular late 1980s? If combined with this image from the late Bill Richard’s Book on Friar Tuck and Blidworth Forest we can just work that the railings enclosed the basin seen in Frank’s photo just traceable as a depression. Sadly, the photo fails to show the position of the railings. Frank described the ‘basin’ as being cut out of the sandstone rather than being built with gives hope. My question being do these structures seen in the picture lie beneath the mud and mire seen in the recent photo or has all the stone work been removed. He believes the photos were taken between 1975-78 I have included them compared to recent photos labelled to where I suggest the lost features are. Whilst my search for photos of the whole structure have drawn a blank so far an exciting discovery via fellow folklorist Frank Earp in his photo collection which will go some way to reassessing and understanding the structure if and hopefully when it is fully restored. Frank had to scan the photo in two sections and I have ‘glued’ them back together digitally (I include two different glued versions) I include the photos as they are In my post about Friar Tuck’s Well I bemoaned the lack of any good photos. with new photos and hopefully with a new appraisal. For my 99th post I’ve decided to revisit one of the blogs most popular posts. ![]()
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