Wexcombe Waterworks, a brick-built circular domed pump house built in 1899 in Wiltshire, England, UK.

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This building was built by Dr William Finch, a surgeon from Salisbury who lived in Wexcombe in the late 1800’s and installed waterworks for the hamlet. During the war it was occasionally used as a “prison” for the Italian POWs if they strayed from the straight and narrow. The dedication stone inscribed in Gothic majescules, barely legible now, originally read WEXCOMBE THE GIFT OF WILLIAM CORBIN FINCH/ AD 1899.

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Size: 3504px × 5256px
Location: Wexcombe, Wiltshire, England, UK
Photo credit: © Gillian Pullinger / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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