Tay Street Well
Two views of the well in the grounds of a house on Tay Street. At one time there were wells dotted about all over the village. Public Health legislation of the 1870s demanded that all new houses should have clean water piped in and dirty water piped out. With Newport’s late nineteenth century housing boom, it was therefore essential to procure a fresh water supply, and so a pipe was laid over the first rail bridge from Dundee’s supply at Lintrathen. With the provision of a good water supply the old wells soon fell out of use and in many cases into disrepair. It’s good to see these ones preserved.
Place
Newport-on-Tay, Tay StreetLicense
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC-BY-NC-ND)Reference number
NOT.1974Format
Photograph (1435)
Area
Newport (1219)
Subject
Out and About (7)
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