Camberwell's well found!!

[boohoo]

How exciting! I read somewhere else that there was some other man made wells in the area. R Whites lemonade was made in Camberwell but using artesian wells (wells sunk far enough into the ground to reach deep chalk layer and clean water)

anyway, here's the article...

Newspaper article

And here's some more stuff on it...

Original research

 

[Mrs Magpie]

This is brilliant. Cheered me up no end after a hair-tearingly frustrating day.

 

[boohoo]

This is brilliant. Cheered me up no end after a hair-tearingly frustrating day.

Now it would be nice if they found the wells in stockwell... I was just looking for some info on them but came across this local story...

Stockwell the horse

 

[Mrs Magpie]

You're just making my day better and better.

 

[boohoo]

Not sure where I found this but this is info about where the stock wells are...

On Stockwell Green there used to be a public well at the south-west corner (ref. 25) and there are still two wells on the site of Stockwell Congregational Church and two on the site of Hammerton's Brewery. The Barrett family's house in Stockwell Road opposite the Green was supplied with “remarkable fine water” from a spring nearby. (ref. 61)

The congregational church is now the little mosque. It's claim to fame is it was where William Booth got married. The land at the back is all empty so I imagine the wells wouldn't be hard to find.

All these wells make me think of the Only fools and horse's episode with the Peckham Spring water - not such a far fetched idea really!!!

 

[Crispy]

Awesome story

 

[boohoo]

I love this maps - gives a real sense of the marsh lands that lambeth was and the obvious places for settlements. Thorney Island (Westminster abbey)really stands out

 

[Crispy]

It's a fantastic map. Look at farringdon road threading itself up the valley! And Wandsworth road following the contour! And the nodes on the hills on the south side of the river that attracted settlement and thence the bridges! great stuff

 

[lang rabbie]

I love this maps - gives a real sense of the marsh lands that lambeth was and the obvious places for settlements. Thorney Island (Westminster abbey)really stands out

Except that this contour map doesn't actually show Thorney Island - are you confusing Westminster Abbey (consecrated 1065 AD) and Westminster Cathedral (consecrated 1910)

 

[HobgoblinMan]

I heard the well at Stockwell never had any drinking water. It was only good for cooking, just a broth of chicken stock.

 

[boohoo]

Except that this contour map doesn't actually show Thorney Island - are you confusing Westminster Abbey (consecrated 1065 AD) and Westminster Cathedral (consecrated 1910)

yep.. whoops...

 

[boohoo]

I heard the well at Stockwell never had any drinking water. It was only good for cooking, just a broth of chicken stock.

There were two breweries that used the water.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

I heard the well at Stockwell never had any drinking water. It was only good for cooking, just a broth of chicken stock.

The water for beer was boiled, which is why people drank it because it was safer (well, one of the reasons people drank it!).

 

[London_Calling]

Oh wow, this guy is the nuts!

God I love this town

 

[lang rabbie]

Oh wow, this guy is the nuts!

God I love this town

It is blindlingly obvious that the Romans must have devised SCUBA apparatus for underwater route marches 1700 years before Cousteau

 

[oryx]

That 'Britain's Hidden History' is a fantastic website.

Great story.

 

[boohoo]

And now you can go visit! Open day!

Sunday 26th September 1pm to 4pm at 56a Grove Park, off Camberwell Grove, Camberwell SE5.

 

[ska invita]

It's a fantastic map. Look at farringdon road threading itself up the valley! And Wandsworth road following the contour! And the nodes on the hills on the south side of the river that attracted settlement and thence the bridges! great stuff

the valley wouldve been the fleet i reckon.
good spot on the nodes and the bridges - i often wondered why london bridge and blackfriars were the first to be built.
anyone got a relief map for the whole of london?
funnilny enough in the last couple of weeks ive been on a tour of the highpoints of london - muswell hill and ally pally in the north, and forest hill and a great spot next to nunhead cemetry in the south - its really nice to be get a lay of the land...

re: finding camberwell, i think ladywell is in someone back garden too. theres a plaque on one of the houses

 

[Will Henley]

I love this maps - gives a real sense of the marsh lands that lambeth was and the obvious places for settlements. Thorney Island (Westminster abbey)really stands out

this is great, where does it come from?