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

	The "pump" in the centre of Grassington, N. Yorks. Photographs by Paul Snelling - thanks, Paul. It carries three notices:
	This old pump was restored during the year 2000 to celebrate the new Millennium and as a Memorial to the Young Men of Grassington and District who died as a result of Military Service during the 20th Century
	Not drinking water
	do not wash muddy boots in this water.
	The notice says it's a pump - but where's the handle? Elsewhere I've read that it was known as "The Fountain", installed in the 1890s, and was termed a syphon fountain that used to deliver water from an underground stream into a horse trough. It has been moved from its original location, which was just a bit further up the road, opposite what is now the Devonshire Hotel.
	Markings: None other. Manufacturer: Unk.

A plank-mounted brass lift and force pump in the Folk Museum, Grassington, North Yorks, complete with an air vessel and most unusually fitted with a flywheel, not a handle. Our thanks to the people at the excellent Folk Museum, who were most helpful in providing some background on this pump: it apparently came from an old rectory in West Marton, near Skipton, and was used to pump water up from a basement cistern which collected rainwater. Markings: None. Manufacturer: Unk.

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