The Orkney Image Library
No: 910 Contributor: Orkney Archives Year: 1931
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A Tom Kent picture, date unknown.
Time to unseal the well perhaps? Or was it sealed up for a very good reason?
Picture added on 23 August 2005
It has been unsealed and you can see the water behind glass
Added by W Watters on 26 August 2005
In the early/mid 1960s a visitor to Orkney (Mr Desmond Fippard) found the stone in a dilapidated state, he purchased some white paint from a local store in Stromness. He then cleaned and painted the stone in order that something as important as this did not go unnoticed for any future visitor.Des Fippard went on to become a director of Ford Motor Co Australia
Added by David Tullock on 12 July 2011
Why was the well sealed?
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