"Do you want to see the Gemmill Fountain?" Phoebe asks as she leans towards the camera. That's how our video "The Search for Singapore's First Public Drinking Fountain" from April last year ends. Well, we wanted to see the fountain but the Heritage Conservation Centre, where it was being kept, was not accepting any visitors because of their building expansion project.
Now fast forward 10 months:
Imagine our delight when an email came from NHB last month informing us that the fountain was being reinstalled at the National Museum! We were invited to the media event held last Friday and news of this appears in today's (Mon 8th Feb 2010) Straits Times and LianHeZaoBao.
The girls and I were really thrilled to finally come face-to-lion-face with the Gemmill Fountain and so glad that the fountain, now beautifully restored, is once again available "for the use of all nations at Singapore" as John Gemmill intended.
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