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Line of houses numbering through from 17 on the left to 22 on the right. Spa Builings was a complex of houses which formed a rough square shape. Built after 1847, they formed an enclave around what had been a Sulphur Spa Well. This area was noted for the number of springs and wells, some of which were famed for healing properties. Sugar Well, a spring which reputedly never dried up, was noted for the icy temperature of the water. It had been a Rag Well, where visitors would hang rags or scraps of clothing on nearby bushes. This was thought to be an echo of tree worship. Ralph Thoresby, Leeds Historian (1658-1725) decribed his visits to Leeds spa wells in his work Ducatis Leodiensis. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Spa Buildings | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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