Drinking Fountain

Category: Marker/Sign/Street Furniture

Drinking Fountain, Glasgow Green

This public drinking fountain was moved from Paisley in 1880. It is a memorial to Hugh McDonald. Public drinking fountains were once a common sight in Victorian cities. People often did not have a fresh water supply in their homes, and so small fountains like this one were essential for good health. Now that a clean water supply is available to everyone, these sources of water have become disused and fallen into disrepair. The fountain has been badly vandalised and eroded. It no longer produces water and is now more of a monument to the changing social conditions in Glasgow.