St Peter's Pool in 1905

One of the most popular attractions in Bourne is the Wellhead or St Peter’s Pool, a small lake fed by seven springs which filter through from the Lincolnshire limestone belt, providing an abundant supply of fresh chalybeate or iron-rich water for early settlers who made their home here.
Today, it forms part of the Wellhead Gardens, our local park established in 1956, and now attracts many visitors with their children who come to feed the water birds that congregate here all year round.
This Edwardian photograph shows the pool as it was in 1905 with the old workhouse, later St Peter’s Hospital, in the background, a stark Victorian building demolished in 2001 to make way for extensions to Warner’s printing plant.