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Title: Old Belfast Water Cart (1921)
Object Name: Drawing
Maker: McDade, William fl.1891-1921, d.1946 (Primary maker)
McDade, William fl.1891-1921, d.1946 (artist)
Date Made: 1921
1921
Description: 'Old Belfast water cart for disrtibuting Cromac spring water to the houses of belfast residents. [The service was] discontinued about 1885. The water was sold at a half-penny per bucket'
Materials: watercolour on paper
Catalogue Number: BELUM.P167.1921
Copyright: National Museums NI

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