Well

This is a wellhead in Edinburgh's High Street. A plaque on the side says that it was built around 1675 until it was run over by a horse drawn fire-engine in 1897. It was rebuilt but by this time individual water supplies had been fitted to houses in the area.

The water came from the Castlehill reservoir further up the road and next to the Ragged School and was filled from Comiston Springs. Long queues formed here to get water and so it was a bit of a social hot spot.

Interesting that if you go on one of the many historical tours of this area you are told that water supplies in those days were taken from the Nor Loch which is where Princes Street Gardens is now and where all the effluent from the household "bucket" ran into!