Click on picture below for full screen picture (it may take a minute
to download). By the end of the 19th century there was a need
for a better water supply in the village and Mr. E. T.D.Foxcroft had a ram
insta11ed near Norton Barn to pump up water from a very good spring, The
ram had been built by John Wallis Titt of Warminster and exhibited at the
Bath and West show at Taunton in 1895. It was fetched from Taunton by two
men who charged 52/- to fetch it with a wagon and horses. The journey took
two days each way. The photograph probably shows the day it started pumping!) |