Eating Out.

Sitting around a giant flower pot,  the remains of a once, ornate drinking fountain in the market square, Cambridge. Originally, a Gothic Revival, gabled, stone fountain,  set in a granite basin, ( the flower pot),  the conduit head for Hobson's brook. It was erected in 1856 after the much older original was moved to another site. Most of it was demolished in 1953, due to it's deterioration, the fountain flow cut off in 1960, when the shopping centre was built and has never been restored.The carved side pillars are now in a museum. The extra, from the Cambridge Collection, shows the market square in 1937 and the fountain in it's former glory. It was still a drinking fountain in my young days and had several metal cups chained to it.