Old Photograph Fountain High Streeet Dumfries Scotland

Old photograph of Scots by the fountain on the High Street in Dumfries, Scotland. It comprises a stone basin with a large and intricate cast iron structure above, which was manufactured by the Sun Foundry of Glasgow in 1882. The bottom basin is filled from spouts coming from the mouths of crocodiles held by four boys. This current structure replaces an earlier fountain here that was installed in 1851 to celebrate the piping of clean drinking water to the town from Lochrutton Loch, an act which greatly reduced the incidence of cholera.



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