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THE ST JAMES' GARDENS SPRING - Liverpool Hidden History
Overlooked by Liverpool’s Anglican Cathedral is the city’s only natural spring, which was once said to be able to promote appetite and quicken digestion but had been discovered a year too late to deal with a major epidemic in the town. In 1773 the Chalybeate (meaning ‘containing iron) spring was discovered by quarrymen on the eastern side […]