Well Dressing, Worcestershire, England

[spiralsheep]

I was in Worcestershire over the early May Bank Holiday weekend, extended by the royal wedding holiday. I visited Malvern, a town with nearly 30,000 inhabitants, famous for its water, during the annual well dressing event.



This well/spring in an old bottling works is a small red-rock cave, lined with green moss, surrounding a pool of water, and set into a wall in a publicly accessible courtyard.

There are 10 photos with minimal commentary @ my journal. 7 of the wells are in urban Malvern with one, St Ann's Well, on the Malvern Hills above the town and two more, Westminster Bank Spout and St James Churchyard, in the connecting dormitory "village" of West Malvern.

Comments

[kake]

This is great! I like the rule about "first come first served" when it comes to deciding who gets each site.

[spiralsheep]

I suspect that rule isn't strictly observed but there are more wells than would-be dressers in the Malvern area so it all seems to work out.

I vaguely remember hearing that someone in ?north?east? central London had created a local well-dressing custom in a ?park?cityfarm? a few years back but I can't remember the details (tried googling but no luck).

P.S. Hope the "themes" tags are ok. I nicked the idea from forkedtongues.

[kake]

I like the themes tags, thank you!

I had no luck googling either, but have emailed someone who might know.