European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 25, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Harrogate. United it kingdom a North a \ sea London j # 4 North sea. A s i v v <5 North Yorkshire a Ripon Knaresboroug Harrogate a Yorks amps Susan Harris continued from Page 11 visit the old Royal pump room where the Gentry worm come to cure their dyspepsia with a Glass from the us Lurous stinking Well. The domed octagonal r0ya pump room from the same period As the turkish b the a mixture of elegant Neo classical and cast Iron and Al s victorian style. The museum inside re creates the see of Gentry coming to take the Waters one of them built"8 around the original Fulfur Wells. Whatever medicinal value it has the water has a tast that makes Mere indigestion Pale by comparison but 8 Charles Dickens Alfred lord Tennyson George Bernard Shaw and sir Edward Elgar All came for the treatment Herriot says that what they were All doing was fleeing the effects of too much Rich food. A this is something you can find in moderate doses today at bettys a curious Continental style Coffee and Tea room with delicious homemade pastries and sandwiches it s at the top of the Street called Montpellier Hill. Bettys was the creation of a Swiss confectioner named Frederick Belmont who started it in 1919. Who Quot Bettye was according to the menu is a family secret better left to discretion. But there was a Betty in the town s history whose name would certainly have been known to Belmont Betty Lipton Harrogate s Best known Well attendant for nearly 60 years until she died in 1843. She dispensed Quot Waters and quips and quodlibet with equal liberality a a visitor wrote in 1841. After you be found out All about Betty and visited the Royal pump room museum you la be ready to Start exploring the antique stores clustered in such streets As Montpellier Parade and Montpellier gardens. The victorians who adopted the word spa from the belgian town of that name thought that Montpellier put visitors in mind of a French resort and sprinkled it liberally around the streets of Harrogate the tourist information Center explains. There Are few bargains in  antique Market even in North Yorkshire but Many specially shops dealing in 18th-Century English furniture porcelain and Oil and Watercolour paintings offer a Broad selection. Many of them Are clustered around the Montpellier British t tourist authority above the hard raw Force Waterfall in the Yorkshire Dales. At left the Valley Cardens of Harrogate. British tourist authority stripes Magazine october 25, 1990