Drinking fountain in Dollar
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Drinking fountain in Dollar by Gordon Brown as part of the Geograph project.
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Drinking fountain in Dollar
Image: © Gordon Brown Taken: 18 Jul 2017
And it works! Water flows at the push of the lever - takes me back to my youth when there were a lot of these around, often under Victorian canopies. This one bears the inscription "Erected with the surplus funds of an industrial exhibition held in Dollar August 1890". Of course, there is also a later addition - "Not drinking water".
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Image Location
Latitude
56.164512
Longitude
-3.671605