The history of the foundries in Glasgow and the surrounding areas is really quite interesting, especially the Carron Foundry, near Falkirk. They've made everthing from cannons to post boxes, and at one point even issued their own currency!

It was created by Protests and Suffragettes in association with Impact Arts Craft Cafe and was commissioned by Yardworks in Glasgow.

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I don't know, but I'd imagine a mix of the two. Over 40 years, that's 'only' 38 a year, which seems feasible.

We have a couple of the Green ones in Glasgow (such as the James Martin Memorial Fountain near Glasgow Green). The one from Durban isn't one I've seen before. 👍🙂

As well as being an acomplished sculptor, for more than 40 years George worked for the Glasgow Humane Society (as his father did before him) and in that time he rescued more than 1,500 people from the same river.

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Designed by Thomas Baird and built in 1902 for John Campbell, a branch of the Commercial Bank of Scotland originally occupied the ground floor offices with flats occupying the floors above.

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This had been demolished a few years previously after the university moved to its new Gilmorehill canpus in the city's West End.

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However, similar unattributed drinking fountains can be found outside Alexandra Park in Dennistoun (thought to have been made, at least in part, by the Sun Foundry) and Cowan Park in Barrhead.

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It is one of the few surviving examples of a decorative water fountain known to have been made by the Cruikshanks and Company foundry in Denny.

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I've often thought there is a rather beautiful coffee table book to be written about the decorative stained glass of Glasgow's pubs.

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At least some of its panels were created by Stephen Adam, an influential glass designer and a pioneer of modern stained glass in Scotland. While his work can be found in a number of buildings around the city, this is one of the few that is still in the public realm.

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The birds in the foreground are perched on the remains of one of the shipyard's wooden slipways which were used to launch vessels ranging from tramp steamers to luxury ocean liners and America's Cup racing yachts.

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