The General's Well

[JockWatt]

I've always understood that it was General WADE's Well :smile: :smile:

[Charles Bannerman]

I've always understood that it was General WADE's Well

Am Baile suggests that it may have been a General MacIntyre who owned Bught House during the 19th century.

[dougiedanger]

 

I've always understood that it was General WADE's Well :smile: :smile:

Am Baile suggests that it may have been a General MacIntyre who owned Bught House during the 19th century.

 

 

Did he also control the trampolines and the crazy golf?

[+weeman]

Found this on the web;

The General’s well
At one time, Inverness had several healing walls, each of the wells was visited for a different cure – the General’s Well being the one to visit for a cure for rickets. After silvering the water the custom was to bathe the afflicted limbs and also to drink the water. Being so conveniently near the town it was much frequented and the number and variety of diseases it could subdue were proportionately great. 

Far and near, children and young persons afflicted with rickets were brought to it and manipulated upon by its waters . To strengthen the virtue of the water, silver coins of all sizes, together with small pebbles, were immersed in the well and various curious ceremonies were observed.

[CaleyD]

It's actually a urinal, or I hope so because I've been pissing it in for years.

[tm4tj]

The General's Well................................I didn't know he had been ill

[Charles Bannerman]

It's actually a urinal, or I hope so because I've been pissing it in for years.

 

So, far from being cured of rickets, drinkers are actually likely to have been afflicted by something far worse!

[+bughtmaster]

Thank God I only drank there in my early youth and as a boy, long before CaleyD got near it.

 

What would General Wade say ?...........probably,..........should have gone to specsavers