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On the edge of
Edmundbyers’ village green at the very heart of the old settlement can be found
a curious fragment of our past: a neat little set of water troughs and milk-stands.
They sit,
protected by a stone wall, facing the main thoroughfare, and hark back to the
simpler times of our distant, pre-motorised past. The troughs – possibly fed by
pipe –were, I suppose, the ‘petrol stations’ of their day for passing horse
traffic; and the milk-stands enabled the local dairy farmers to place their
churns out for collection.
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