Churches, Graveyards & Monuments

This interesting drinking fountain is known as the Thomas Thompson Memorial Fountain. 

Located at the intersection between Ormeau Avenue and Bedford Street, near the BBC headquarters in Belfast. 

The inscription is as follows: "Whosoever drinketh the water that I shall give him...shall never thirst again".

I cannot believe that this was erected as late as 1985.

Thomas Thompson was a navel surgeon in the Napoleonic Wars who was also distinguished in the line of duty. Many years later though he was touched by the horrors inflicted on people during the Great Famine. As people poured into Belfast appalling conditions soon encouraged devastating epidemics of typhus, cholera, smallpox, and dysentery. As a consequence Thompson founded the Charitable Home for the Incurable which provided comfort for those sick and dying.