CURATIVE SPA WATERS I too live in Leamington Spa and can confirm that the taste of the Spa water is disgusting! As a child of 6 or 7 yrs I remember frequent visits to relatives who lived in nearby Whitnash. We used to go to the Spa water well which was directly outside the Parish church at the bottom of The Parade. There was a stone building in Victorian Gothic style on what is now the forecourt of the church. Inside the ornate open arches, up several steep steps, the Spa water gushed from brass taps into small marble basins beneath. Above the basins, chained to the wall, were metal beakers from which the visitors drank. I can remember my father laughing at my reaction to the smelly salty water and my own feeling that this was an unhygienic as well as nauseous experience. Alas the Well House is no more and the famous waters now dribble feebly from a tap on a stone plinth to the left of the Pump Rooms. I little realised at the time that one day I would actually live in Royal Leamington Spa in a house no more than two minutes walk away from the well. The deeds of this house state quite clearly that the well which supplied water to the property for many years was under a covenant which allowed the water to be used for domestic purposes only. In other words I am not allowed to set up a rival Spa water fountain to compete with the existing town supply! Eileen P ================================ Eileen Pedley eped@warwick.ac.uk Moderator of "Granny's Kitchen" Project
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