The historic site of the Black Watch Well by North Shore will be rededicated in a short ceremony on Thursday, Government House announced this afternoon.

The new roundabout at the junction of Black Watch Pass and North Shore Road will improve pedestrian access to the well, which has been restored and its surroundings landscaped.

At 9.45am on Thursday, the visiting Pipes and Drums of the Black Watch, as participants in this week’s Bermuda Tattoo marking the 50th anniversary of the Royal Bermuda Regiment will march from Black Watch Pass to the place where a well dug by members of their military unit to provide help during a disastrous 1848 fever outbreak.

The Black Watch Regiment, now part of the Royal Regiment of Scotland as its 3rd Battalion, was based in Bermuda when a Yellow Fever epidemic broke out.

Members of the Regiment, among other fever relief activities, dug a well by today’s Ducking Stool Park on the North Shore. It became known as the Black Watch Well and the nearby Pass through Mount Langton took its name from the Well and its military builders, when it was constructed in the 1930s.

The Well has not been in use for many years and its later status as a historic site also fell away as traffic flows made it difficult to visit and the Well’s remains began to show signs of neglect.

The ceremony offers a chance for the Regiment to reconnect with its Bermuda past and for the work done to restore a small but historic site to be marked with some dramatic pageantry.