Investigating the Wells of Poldhu
With the help of the Council for Scottish Archaeology’s Adopt-a-Monument scheme, the Victorian mineral springs known as The Wells of Poldhu are being restored to their former glory. Near Logie Coldstone, neglect and rampant rhododendron had removed from view both of the granite-dressed wells, but in their heyday they were much-visited in search of an alleged cure for ‘gravellish disorders and scrofula’.
Months of work have cleared the site, revealed the old culverts and restored the path connecting the two wells. With generous funding from the Cairngorm National Park Authority and other sources, the restoration of the site (complete with footbridge) should be completed by June 2008.
In my role as project leader I am compiling an oral history of the Wells of Poldhu and would be most grateful for any tales, photographs, facts or recollections of the Wells which can be added to the information which I am pulling together. Did you visit them, picnic there, or have you been told about them? All and any material which you pass on to me will be accredited in a published leaflet and will enhance knowledge of our local heritage.
Fred Bull,
Birkens, Logie Coldstone AB34 5PQ; email: bullsorbus@AOL.com