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I need some restoration Wishing Well
« on: Thursday 01 October 20 16:04 BST (UK) »
This is me, aged about two or three, standing by a wishing well that my dad built in the front garden, together with a few garden gnomes.

Would restorers be able to tidy me up a bit, and add some colour?

Thanks
Lisa
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Re: I need some restoration Wishing Well
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 01 October 20 23:14 BST (UK) »
One from me....

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Re: I need some restoration Wishing Well
« Reply #2 on: Friday 02 October 20 00:08 BST (UK) »
Really nice work, Andy. And don't you just love the expression on the gnome on the right - what a cheeky little character.
Peter
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Re: I need some restoration Wishing Well
« Reply #3 on: Friday 02 October 20 00:31 BST (UK) »
One from me
Pat
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Re: I need some restoration Wishing Well
« Reply #4 on: Friday 02 October 20 07:03 BST (UK) »
Really nice work, Andy. And don't you just love the expression on the gnome on the right - what a cheeky little character.
Peter

Thanks Peter.... nice one from Pat, this might be a popular one.

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Re: I need some restoration Wishing Well
« Reply #5 on: Friday 02 October 20 10:19 BST (UK) »
Oh these are lovely, thank you both so much. And the gnomes! I recall we had a big white concrete rabbit statue at some point too.

The tree behind was a flowering cherry, it got so big that the wishing well had to go.
Mullingar, Westmeath Ireland: Gilligan/Wall/Meagher/Maher/Gray/O'Hara/Corroon (various spellings)
Bristol: Woodman/James/Derrick
Bristol/Somerset: Saunders/Wilmot
Gloucestershire:Woodman/Mathews/Tandy/Stinchcombe/Marten/Thompson
Wiltshire: Mathews
Carmarthen: Thomas, Lewis
Australia: Mary Lewis, transportee, married Henry Brown - what happened to her?

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Re: I need some restoration Wishing Well
« Reply #6 on: Friday 02 October 20 10:20 BST (UK) »
The bar across the middle of the well has a little chain and a plastic flowerpot attached to that, with the holes it wouldn’t have been much use for fetching water!
Mullingar, Westmeath Ireland: Gilligan/Wall/Meagher/Maher/Gray/O'Hara/Corroon (various spellings)
Bristol: Woodman/James/Derrick
Bristol/Somerset: Saunders/Wilmot
Gloucestershire:Woodman/Mathews/Tandy/Stinchcombe/Marten/Thompson
Wiltshire: Mathews
Carmarthen: Thomas, Lewis
Australia: Mary Lewis, transportee, married Henry Brown - what happened to her?

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Re: I need some restoration Wishing Well
« Reply #7 on: Friday 02 October 20 10:42 BST (UK) »
So lovely to see Pat and Andy’s different interpretations of the colours. I can remember so much of the things in the picture, but nothing about what I was wearing.

Mullingar, Westmeath Ireland: Gilligan/Wall/Meagher/Maher/Gray/O'Hara/Corroon (various spellings)
Bristol: Woodman/James/Derrick
Bristol/Somerset: Saunders/Wilmot
Gloucestershire:Woodman/Mathews/Tandy/Stinchcombe/Marten/Thompson
Wiltshire: Mathews
Carmarthen: Thomas, Lewis
Australia: Mary Lewis, transportee, married Henry Brown - what happened to her?

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Re: I need some restoration Wishing Well
« Reply #8 on: Friday 02 October 20 11:45 BST (UK) »

              Great work Andy and Pat.  Well done :D :D :D :D :D