Sinking a borehole – Roy Pinnock

Watercress is grown in running water from springs. At Riverside Road, the Pinnock family had to sink boreholes in the lake to get spring water for the cress to grow in. Roy Pinnock describes the process.

Interview date: 4 April 2013. Interviewer: Sandy Norman.

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