One of the Wallace Fountains, this one is in Wallace Park, Lisburn – majority are located in Paris – public drinking fountains for the poor

28/09/201428/09/2014

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Harry Monroe says:

28/09/2014 at 4:38 pm

I well remember them in the ’50s and ’60s…..and the low-level ones with the metal handles which squirted the water into the air.

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Helen Szafer says:

13/01/2015 at 1:38 am

I write a blog about cast iron drinking fountains and would like permission to use the photo of the Wallace drinking fountain. I will, of course, credit and link back to your site. You can view my blog at https://memorialdrinkingfountains.wordpress.com

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1. Janmary says:
  
  14/01/2015 at 4:20 pm
  
  Certainly – thanks for asking!
  
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23/03/201423/03/2014

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Harry Monroe says:

23/03/2014 at 2:17 pm

When I was but a lad, wending my weary
way to Wallace from Belsize, we would stop at this fountain, at the corner of the cricket pitch, for suitable refreshment, if memory serves me correctly, that is!. I remember it had a push-down metal lever. We never even looked at the ornate metalwork.

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