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Glasgow Live
Glasgow Live
National
Craig Williams & David McLean

Dispelling the M8 urban myth about Glasgow's infamous leaning fountain

When people think of fountains in Glasgow the first to come to mind, logically, is the elaborate Doulton Fountain that is located outside the People's Palace - the largest ever to be constructed in ceramic.

Yet up at the corner of Woodside Crescent and Sauchiehall Street in Charing Cross stands a fountain that arguably deserves to be recognised one of the city's true iconic landmarks - the Cameron Memorial Fountain.

That's because while the fountain has long stopped providing drinking water, Glasgow's very own 'Leaning Tower Of Pisa' stands at such a weird angle that it itself appears to sit with a 'drunken' tilt.

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