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:* [[File:Symbol confirmed.svg|16px]] new, long & neutral enough. Hook checks out & interesting. [[User:Johnbod|Johnbod]] ([[User talk:Johnbod|talk]]) 18:51, 10 January 2019 (UTC)
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:* [[File:Symbol confirmed.svg|16px]] GTG. new, long & neutral enough. Hook checks out & interesting. Earwig ok. [[User:Johnbod|Johnbod]] ([[User talk:Johnbod|talk]]) 18:51, 10 January 2019 (UTC)
  
 
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Rondebosch Fountain

The design for the Rondebosch Fountain, from a 19th century catalogue.
The design for the Rondebosch Fountain, from a 19th century catalogue.
  • ... that Rondebosch Fountain, a cast iron water trough for horses and one of the first electric street lights in South Africa, is being rebuilt in aluminium after the original was destroyed in a traffic accident in 2015? Source: "It was destroyed after a speeding car drove into it during the early hours of the morning three years ago. ... Cape Town-based foundry Heritage Castings has been responsible for the project, creating a replica of the original fountain patterns and structure. ... The fountain, which was manufactured in England, was also the first electric lamp post in South Africa... an ornamental trough used for the watering of horses, and consists of a round cast-iron drinking bowl supported on legs in the form of horses hooves" [1]

Created/expanded by Zaian (talk). Self-nominated at 11:16, 28 December 2018 (UTC).

  • Symbol confirmed.svg GTG. new, long & neutral enough. Hook checks out & interesting. Earwig ok. Johnbod (talk) 18:51, 10 January 2019 (UTC)