Smith actively promoted the use of cast iron for grave markers to help make the type of highly ornamented gravestone previously only available to the very rich much more affordable and so more widely available.

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Cast iron Victorian grave marker in the New Kilpartick Parish Churchyard in Bearsden, near Glasgow. Grave markers like this are particularly Scottish, and many were produced by George Smith's Sun Foundry in Port Dundas in Glasgow.

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Possibly my favourite fountain in the world, it was created at Smith's Sun Foundry on Port Dundas Road in Glasgow in 1868 for the industrialist Thomas Coats. And, yes that is a near-life sized walrus in the foreground!

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George Smith and Company's magnificently over-the-top and somewhat bizarre Grand Central Fountain in Fountain Gardens in Paisley.

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