Imported historical comment — Trevor Smith — 2021-09-08 08:38:26
I believe the confusion is because there were probably TWO springs. I remember the one in Montem Pleasure Grounds (as they used to be called). There used to be a dry circular pond / lido there with a pebble base, and just uphill from it, there was a spring under a clump of bushes. These were both located under what is currently the Montem Car Park. When they were building the now demolished sports centre, they dumped a load of sand / gravel near this pond and this appeared to block some kind of drainage as part of it over-spilled into the pond which then filled up with the water from the spring....we used to build rafts and play in the pool..
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