Roundhay Park, The Drinking Fountain c.1960
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The council paid £139,000 for the park in 1872, it being one of a number of acquisitions by the authority over the previous 20 years. In 1852, following an outbreak of cholera, the council bought out the private water suppliers for £250,000 and embarked on schemes totalling £4 million, so that by 1918 the city was being supplied with 16 million gallons of fresh water a day. In 1870 the council also acquired control of the Gas Company for £750,000.
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