Kandy Old Coffee Flower Fountain K andy Old Fountain , also known as Coffee Flower Fountain or the Fountain of Prince
of Wales (Sinhala: මහනුවර පැරණි වතුර මල, Nuwara Wathura Mala ”), is a water spout erected in the city of Kandy, Sri Lanka. It was built by the Coffee Planters of Ceylon to commemorate the visit of Prince of Wales, Edward VII (1841-1910) to Sri Lanka in 1875 (Biyanwila, 2019). The fountain is located in the Dewa Veediya near the main entrance to the Temple of the Tooth in Kandy History Shortly after the British occupation of Sri Lanka (British Ceylon 1815-1948), coffee became the main plantation in the country (Abeywardana, 2004). At the time Sri Lanka was the largest coffee producer in the world. When the Prince of Wales announced his plan to visit Sri Lanka, the coffee planters of the country erected this fountain to commemorate this event. The plaque fixed onto the fountain can be read as follows, "Erected by the Coffee Planters of Ceylon in commemoration of the visit of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales to …
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There is an identical fountain in my hometown of Dumfries in Scotland, they must have come from the same factory.
H.A.K.L. Manjula
Yes indeed. The Kandy fountain is said to have been brought from a factory Glasgow, a port city on the River Clyde in Scotland's western Lowlands.
