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Tuesday, 23 April 2019 19:48
Physic Well visitors rekindle childhood memories
Several visitors at the first open day of the refurbished Barnet Physic Well fulfilled a lifetime’s ambition to descend the steps to see how the underground well chamber might have appeared when the renowned diarist Samuel Pepys drank its water in the 1660s.
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Tuesday, 20 November 2018 18:53
Newly-restored physic wellhouse re-opened
Barnet’s historic wellhouse, which houses one of the best-preserved medicinal wells in the country, has been restored to its full mock-Tudor glory.
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Thursday, 15 February 2018 11:14
Physic Well to be restored
Years of uncertainty about the ownership of Barnet Museum and the future of Barnet’s historic physic well have both been successfully resolved after sustained efforts by volunteers and well-wishers.
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Thursday, 11 May 2017 09:28
Duke backs local history campaigners
On his first visit to Barnet, Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester, was on the warpath at the 1471 Battle of Barnet – five centuries later his namesake was back in the town joining the fight to preserve Barnet’s historic legacy.
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Tuesday, 18 April 2017 16:26
Brighter future for Barnet’s physic well
After years of neglect and decay, Historic England has commissioned a detailed survey of the work required to repair and conserve Barnet’s historic physic well, in Well Approach, just a short walk from Barnet Hospital.
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Monday, 21 March 2016 10:30
A peep inside physic well
Visitors queued up for opening time at Barnet’s historic well house – not for a drink, but a rare chance to descend the twelve steps to see the tanks of the old physic well.
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Tuesday, 08 March 2016 11:47
A chance to see – but not to taste
Barnet’s historic physic well, visited by Samuel Pepys, will be open to the public on Saturday 19 March offering a rare chance to walk down the brick-built stairway to see the tanks filled by spring water.
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Monday, 13 April 2015 15:23
Physic well at risk?
Torchlight tour of Barnet’s historic physic well but is another historic building at risk? Local residents had a rare opportunity to see inside Barnet’s historic physic well when Barnet Museum organised an open day at the well house, a short walk from Barnet Hospital.
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Wednesday, 08 January 2014 13:43
Barnet’s historic physic well now sad and forlorn
Is Barnet in danger of losing another historic link with the past? The well house protecting the town’s famous physic well is looking decidedly the worse for wear.
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