Hawarden
Posted in Trips at 20:30 on 13 September 2020
Hawarden, where Gladstone’s Library is situated (see posts in the past week) and where Gladstone and his wife lived, is a village in Flintshire, North Wales.
Main street:-
Gates to Hawarden Castle:-
Hawarden Post Office and side street. I got a flicker of deja vu at the road sign pointing to Queensferry. For a moment I thought I was back in Fife:-
Over the road from the Post Office and near to the gates above lies the Gladstone Memorial Fountain, erected by locals to commemorate the fiftieth wedding anniversary of William Ewart Gladstone and his wife, Catherine:-
The upper inscriptions on the three sides read in total, “Drink ye the water of life.”
Tags: Flintshire, fountains, Gladstone’s Library, Hawarden, North Wales, Queensferry, William Ewart Gladstone
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