Fountains

 See It On A Postcard's Thursday Postcard Hunt is in search of fountains, a celebration of water

Trier, Fountain on the Market-place

The fountain with two names, its location - Market Fountain or the figure surveying the scene - St Peter's Fountain (the cities patron saint). The details on the card are indistinct but Peter is holding a very large key, heaven's gate is probably very big although they say the road to it is narrow.  Better pictures of the fountain can be found at Hither and Thither with a bonus photo of market day.

I do like postcard journeys and this German scene, found in a Canadian charity shop, was posted from the west coast of Canada.  I thought this was my only fountain postcard but after a delve through an inherited box of cards found

this of Sheffield probably from the 1960/70s the fountain was on the Midland Station Roundabout. Today it is replaced by the Cutting Edge water sculpture and a lot less greenery after the area was redeveloped in 2006. Sheffield is 'Steel City' and has been making cutlery since medieval times, hence the 'cutting edge' theme.  The Victorian station was originally build in a slum area prone to flooding and outbreaks of malaria. They culverted the River Sheaf  through triple tunnels so if standing on the station platform the river runs beneath your feet.   The city gets its name from the River Sheaf and today the river is acknowledged for instead of Midland Station Roundabout it is now Sheaf Square.