Sulphur Springs

 

The Sulphur Spring in the river Severn at Normanby was accessed by the villagers from the kissing gate to the rear of the Church.  It was in line with the boundary fences of the Fish Ponds and that of the Sun Inn.  Before the river widening in the early fifties it rose out of the river bank and was surrounded by boulders the water ran from a piece of iron spouting down the bank into the river. People I have spoken to described the smell as that of bad eggs, and the colour of the run off to the river to be green and blue slime.  The water was collected in white enamel buckets.  It was then left standing for some 24 hours before use, this dispersed the smell.  Since the river widening the spring now rises in the river bed and it is visible when the river is low.  Up to the end of the 1^st World War the villagers on Mondays would collect water from the river to fill the copper boilers for the weekly wash.

 

 

Other Sulphur Springs exist in the area one on the green at Salton and the other at Risebro close to Spring Wood and adjoining Coopers Covert each were said to be in line with the Spa at Harrogate by the late Mr Tweedie of Risebro Hall.  For what reasoning one is unsure however the map shows the line.