Old Well Issue Title Is Tame Gentlemen Please (1937)
Old Well. Part of TAME GENTLEMEN PLEASE issue.
Stoke Row, Chiltern Hills.
Various shots of an ornamental well built between two rows of Cypress Trees. The well was presented to the village by the Maharajah of Benares 70 years ago. Novelist, Charles Reade, had told the Maharajah that in the summer some of the villages in the chalk hills go without water.
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