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to have the house as equi-distant as possible from both 
Churches. It was a fine old house, and like many of the old 
houses in Derby, had a very handsome old oak stair-case with 
alternate round and twisted balustrades. On taking down the 
old building, which had been added to, I was told that under 
one of the beams of the latest part were found several coins 
of the reign of Charles II. My predecessors had been very 
careful to make very good and capacious cellarage underneath 
the house, and what was very remarkable, a stream of pure clean 
water flowed through one of them in the direction of Old S. 
Peter’s Well, which is still under the pavement near Mr. Peach’s 
premises in S. Peter’s Street. I always fancy the water came 
from the same spring that supplies S. Thomas 4 Becket’s Well. 
I am under the impression that the old Vicarage abutted upon 
the churchyard, and have reason to believe that the space 
between the house and the church was from time to time 
_ encroached upon and built over. 
I remember also the old hostelries called the Red and White 
Lion, in the Corn Market. The White Lion was a_ very 
_picturesque-looking gabled building, with stone-mullioned 
windows, one side fronting the Corn Market, the other facing 
south, overlooking the open brook, by the Brook-side, now 
Victoria Street. The entrance to the stables was over a wooden 
bridge leading from Victoria Street, opposite to Green Lane. 
Then there was the fine old mansion in the Wardwick belonging 
to the Jessop family, part of which now only remains; Becket 
Street runs through it and the old Park that was behind it. 
There was also a curious old building on Sadler Gate Bridge, 
with an oaken mullioned window. According to tradition, a 
subterranean passage connected it with the College of All 
Saints. 
I also remember several old wells—S. Peter’s Well, close by Mr. 
Peach’s, in S. Peter Street; one on the Osmaston Road, nearly 
_ opposite some lofty new houses, and another in Victoria Street ; 
with pumps placed over them. Becket Well, with its quaint 
domed covering, still exists in Becket Well Lane, as also does 
