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Title: Fullers Vale pond, before the First World War [Go to resource]
Description: The pond is fed by natural springs. Note the horse and cart waiting in Pond Road. Even as late as in the 1891 census, Fullers Vale was still referred to as Fullers Bottom—but late-Victorian sensibilities ensured that most of our local bottoms were transformed into vales! The pond was drained in 1972 after a series of floodings had affected Arford, lower down the valley. Metal railings were put along the roadside, and the pond bed left untouched to fill up gradually with vegetation and inevitable litter. Finally in 2003 a restoration project began to clear the site of the debris of thirty years' neglect and brought the pond back to its previous glory. See also [hs-hl-johnowensmith-i-61-000.jpg] Format: image/jpeg License: http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 Rights holder: John Owen Smith Subjects: pond Temporal: start=1910-01-01; Source: Sense of place SE Creator: John Owen Smith Identifier: http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... Language: en-GB Format: image/jpeg Go to resource More Like this...
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