[114890] Harrogate : Royal Pump Room - Sulphur Waters

Royal Pump Room Museum, Crown Place, Harrogate, North Yorkshire.

 

Sulphur Waters.

The Stinking Well.

Chemical analysis by Thorpe in 1875.

Proven to be highly beneficial in most forms of indigestion, constipation, flatulence, and acidity.

For all cases of functional disorders of the liver.

For stimulating the action of the kidneys and in all forms of chronic skin diseases.

To be drunk warm or cold.

Dosage between 10-24 ounces to be taken early in the morning.

 

In one never to be forgotten morning in 1926, 1500 glasses of mineral water were served in the Royal Pump Room.

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Royal Pump Room, 1842.

By Isaac Thomas Shutt (1818-1879).

Grade ll* listed.

 

Dr. Edmund Deane first drew the attention of the world to the strongest sulphur spring in Great Britain when he published his 'Spadacrene Anglica' in 1626. This Royal Pump Room was built in in 1841-2 as the first act of the Harrogate Improvement Commissioners to a design by Isaac Thomas Shutt of the Swan Hotel at a cost of £2,249 0s 7d. Betty Lupton, 'The Queen of the Wells' dispensed the waters for decades until her death in 1843 at the age of 83. Public right of access to the spring is recognized by the Stray Award of 1778 and the Harrogate Act of 1841, which required the provision of an exterior public pump. The annexe was designed by Leonard Clarke and opened in 1913 by the Lord Mayor of London. The Harrogate Museum was established here in 1953, the historic sulphur spring still being open for use.

 

The Harrogate Improvement Act in 1841 enabled the election of commissioners to govern and effect improvements in the town. The commissioners appointed Isaac Shutt to design the Royal Pump Room to replace the covered well head and provide enhanced accommodation for the rich and fashionable who came to take the cure at the old sulphur well.

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