Barrhead Cooperative Society emblem on a cast iron drinking fountain in Cowan Park in Barrhead. Dated 1897, it was manufactured by the Sun Foundry in Glasgow.
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One final shot of the Sun Foundry's Grand Central Fountain in Fountain Gardens in Paisley, this time focussing on one of the somewhat psychedelic walrus heads on its upper level.
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A close up of one of the four water-spouting walruses in the Sun Foundry's 1868 Grand Central Fountain in Paisley. Why? Because whose Monday morning isn't improved by the random appearance of a cast-iron Victorian walrus in their timeline!
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The magnificently over-the-top and somewhat bizarre Grand Central Fountain in Fountain Gardens in Paisley. Created in 1868 by Glasgow's Sun Foundry for the industrialist Thomas Coats, it is possibly my favourite fountain in the world. And, yes that is a near-life sized walrus in the foreground!
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Craigmount on Cleveden Road in the Kelvindale area of Glasgow. Constructed in the 1880s, it was designed by John Gordon in a Dutch Renaissance style. It was built for Gibson Smith of the George Smith and Co. Foundry. Also known as the Sun Foundry, this was one of the great Glasgow architectural and decorative ironwork foundries and they rivalled the better known Saracen Foundry for the quality of their work.
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Cast iron Victorian grave marker in the New Kilpartick Parish Churchyard in Bearsden, near Glasgow.
Grave markers like this are particularly Scottish, and many were produced by George Smith's Sun Foundry based in Port Dundas in Glasgow, who actively promoted the use of cast iron for this purpose to help make the type of highly ornamented gravestone previously only available to the very rich much more affordable and so more widely available.
Walruses, dolphinfish, herons and cherubs holding crocodiles: This is the uniquely fabulous and bizarre Grand Central Fountain in Paisley. Dating from 1868, it was made for the industrialist Thomas Coats by the famous Sun Foundry based in Port Dundas in Glasgow. It was beautifully restored in the 2010s, and as far as I know there isn't another fountain like it anywhere else in the world.
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