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Happy May Day!

05 Be still like a mountain and flow like a great river, at the Old Bottling Works, Malvern well dressing 05-15

The theme for this year’s well dressing in Malvern is River of Life. I went for a walk, visited a dozen wells, and took some photos. The standard of competition entries by both children’s groups and adults was good, as ever, but some installations were difficult to cap so my photos don’t show all of them to their best advantage.

Report at my journal, with ten small images.

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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.