Bloxworth (click on photograph to bring up bigger/better version).

[Thanks to Shawn Shaw for all the photos.]

Bloxworth, Dorset. Markings: Just an "R" on the lead tank. Manufacturer: Unk.

Also in Bloxworth, Dorset. Markings: "PARRY", "2½" and, on the other side of the barrel, some very indistinct words which could just be "BRITISH MAKE" Manufacturer: Parry.

At the Lodge at Bloxworth, Dorset. This old lead pump has been crudely modified to take a second "nose", and the original nose extended in a similarly unsympathetic manner. Markings: The fancy embossed outline on the lead tank contains no markings. Manufacturer: Unk.

	Also at the Lodge at Bloxworth, Dorset.
	The Lodge was the rectory of Rev George Pickard in his day. "Upon succeeding to a cousin's estate in 1848 the family subsumed the name Cambridge to become the Pickard-Cambridge family. His 5th son Octavius followed his father as Rector of Bloxworth and Winterborne Thomson and was a renowned expert in the field of spiders." A field of spiders... hmm.
	Markings: "G.P", "1825" and two floral motifs. Manufacturer: Unk.

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