. The Bath road : history, fashion, & frivolity on an old highway. Horses; Bath Road (England); England -- Description and travel; England -- Social life and customs; genealogy. A STOLEN FOUNTAIN! 105 with the exception of a pretty peep towards Windsor Castle on the left hand, within two miles of Slough, and near where Gary of the Itinerary places a spot he calls " Tetsworth Water," which does not appear to exist nowadays. Slough is quite modern and unremarkable, but it is rapidly building up legends of its own. There have, for instance, been many strange thefts on the roads, fro
. The Bath road : history, fashion, & frivolity on an old highway. Horses; Bath Road (England); England -- Description and travel; England -- Social life and customs; genealogy. A STOLEN FOUNTAIN! 105 with the exception of a pretty peep towards Windsor Castle on the left hand, within two miles of Slough, and near where Gary of the Itinerary places a spot he calls " Tetsworth Water," which does not appear to exist nowadays. Slough is quite modern and unremarkable, but it is rapidly building up legends of its own. There have, for instance, been many strange thefts on the roads, from time to time, but none perhaps stranger than the purloining, two years ago, of the drinking - fountain which used to stand at the entrance to Slough, where the road branches off to Uxbridge. Until some unusually acquisi- tive folk came along and carried it away with them, there was at that corner a fountain of bronze and marble, fourteen feet in height, the bronze upper part weighing nearly half a ton. It acted also as a finger-post, directing strayed cyclists in the way they should go. The good folks of Slough went to bed one night and saw their fountain standinof where it had been used to stand for years past; but in the morning, when they arose and went forth about their business, the fountain was gone ! Nothing but the plinth was left. Some mad wag suggested that one of the many cyclists who frequent the Bath Road had taken it home with him. ^â ;8«iV"t^ THE STOLEN Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Harper, Charles G. (Charles George), 1863-1943. London : Chapman & Hall, Limited
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