Old fire hydrant markers on Glasgow University's Gilmorehill Campus. The valves fitted to water pipes which we now know as fire hydrants were originally known as fire points, marked by the leters F.P., when they were first intoduced in the late 1800s (which replaced the earlier fire plugs, which were literally plugs fitted into water pipes).

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