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Edward H. Crump, The Village Pump, Burbage, and Charles Hands plaque

Burbage, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom

The Village Pump. This photograph, taken outside The Cross Keys, shows a street scene that would have been familiar to the men and woman settings off from Burbage to serve in the First World War. To commemorate those who never returned, a pump was again installed in the village centre in the centena

ry year of the end of the conflict. Clean water was finally brought to the village in 1915 and, over time, communal pumps like this one were removed. Burbage's permanent water supply was was officiall

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