IN Richmond’s Friary Gardens, there used to be a pretty water fountain, set in a delicate circular stone bowl with a jet bursting out of its centre.
The start of the celebrations of the 950th anniversary of Richmond Castle has led older residents of the town to wonder whatever happened to the fountain which they remember gushing away in their youth in the 1940s and 1950s.
Can anyone tell us anything about it? Do you remember seeing it?
In the 1985 book, Remembering Richmond, which was written about the town in the first decades of the 20th Century, Julia Ghent wrote of how the stone basin had been in a field opposite the cemetery on the western edge of the town on the road to Reeth.