Elizabeth Wood Inglis

The drinking fountain is in Coronation Park in Port Glasgow and it was first put up in 1938. It has been moved from place to place. It may have originally been erected at the top of what is now Princes Street.The park as we know it opened in 1937.

The text on it reads:
In remeberance of Elizabeth Wood Inglis and her life long varied work for the good of Port Glasgow.
Presented by relatives 1938.

Please get in touch if you think you can help add any more details!

After having problems finding ant details on this lady, this page was added in the hope of gaining some information.

By all accounts and not in my words Miss Inglis was a "lady" She held garden partys and was well known around the town. She was a member of a local church and each Sunday walked to and from the town centre to attend the service.

She lived in one of the larger houses that was situated between Springhill and the railway line and the building later became the home of Dr O'Kane of Port Glasgow.

(I am assured that older members of the community will remember this man?)

This is what Ms Docherty remembers:

She was a well dressed lady and each Sunday we would walk her home after church, open the gates for her. She would often hold one of our hands and we would be given an apple or a pear from her garden. Sometimes in the summer she would walk us round the garden to let us see all the flowers. I seem to remember the fountain being at the top of Princes Street, but I might be wrong.

I now have reason to beleive that this lady may have been connected to the Prices Street Church. This church had a minister by the name of Inglis in the year 1800. This gentelman died at the age of 86 in 1953.
Could there be a connection.........wife possibly? We still need more information!

November 2002

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