The water fountain is less a piece of street furniture and more a feature of the village.
It was “a gift to Ripley from the Honourable Alicia Margaret Dame Ingilby in 1907" and once had two drinking cups.
They have long gone, and I didn’t try getting a drink from it.
That said the right hand trough was full of water and the tap looked fairly new so perhaps I could have done.
But with the Boar’s Head opposite which sells fine cask beer and excellent wines, I know I was never going to bother.
Of course, once upon a time such fountains were an important part of a village, or town and like the horse trough were an important feature.
All of which takes me back to the Boar’s Head which has only been selling pints since 1990, although the building was once one of three pubs in the village.
But when Sir William Ingilby who owned the village took against beer being sold on the Sabbath, in 1919 all three pub landlords left and the village was dry for 71 years.
Only the Boar’s Head does the business today having once been the Star Inn and was the breakfast stop for the Leeds to Edinburgh coach.
And that is it.
Location; Ripley
Pictures; Ripley 2017, from the collection of Andrew Simpson
It was “a gift to Ripley from the Honourable Alicia Margaret Dame Ingilby in 1907" and once had two drinking cups.
They have long gone, and I didn’t try getting a drink from it.
That said the right hand trough was full of water and the tap looked fairly new so perhaps I could have done.
Of course, once upon a time such fountains were an important part of a village, or town and like the horse trough were an important feature.
All of which takes me back to the Boar’s Head which has only been selling pints since 1990, although the building was once one of three pubs in the village.
But when Sir William Ingilby who owned the village took against beer being sold on the Sabbath, in 1919 all three pub landlords left and the village was dry for 71 years.
Only the Boar’s Head does the business today having once been the Star Inn and was the breakfast stop for the Leeds to Edinburgh coach.
And that is it.
Location; Ripley
Pictures; Ripley 2017, from the collection of Andrew Simpson
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