Four decorated brackets may have originally suspended cups for people to drink from the spouting water, while horses drank from the trough, and dogs from smaller basins at ground level.

[2] It was cast by Walter Macfarlane & Co. at the Saracen Foundry in Glasgow, Scotland, and presented to the community by George Pigot Moodie in 1891.

[5][6] The original cast iron fountain was destroyed in August 2015 when a speeding car smashed into it, and some of the pieces were stolen.

[13] The Fountain was listed as Water Trough number 27 in the Macfarlane's Castings Catalogue, Sixth edition, vol.

[14] Two similar fountains manufactured at Saracen Foundry to the same design exist in South Africa: one in the neighbouring suburb of Rosebank,[15] but without the horses' legs, and one in Cradock in the Eastern Cape, now without the original hexagonal lantern.