Black plaque № 49425

Coventry, Coventry, England, United Kingdom

Earlsdon Water Fountain This cast iron fountain was made by George Smith’s Sun Foundry in Glasgow in the 1860s, one a of a new generation of drinking fountains designed to provide clean water as part of the war against water-borne diseases such as cholera It is believed to have been purchased by Cov

entry Council and sited outside the church of St John the Baptist in the city centre around 1870 and was relocated to this site in 1921, shortly after the opening of the nearby War Memorial Park. It w

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