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This is another time shift harking back to a traumatic period of Lincoln history when the city was gripped by a typhoid epidemic. If you want to know more about it, and see many other old photos from that period, please use the search facility. But suffice to say that Lincoln had been having problems with its water supply for a very long time, and the typhoid epidemic of 1905 was the final straw that led to the current clean supply from underground at Elkesley over the border in Nottinghamshire, and the building of the water tower on Westgate, which have continued to this day.

The old photo from 1905 shows people queueing for clean water during the typhoid epidemic outside 84 Burton Road.

Presumably the men were largely at work, so it was mainly women and children who were left to collect the water in whatever containers they had to hand. I love the kid in the centre with a bucket on his head! I wonder what happened to him, especially if he survived the slaughter of the First World War that started less than a decade later?

I don't know if the new photo is in exactly the right place, but it is certainly in the vicinity.

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