Bollards in Bo Kaap?

Bollards in Bo Kaap?
In our previous post we asked if whether or not you were able identify the object in the photo, and the place where the shot was taken. If you noticed that Devil's Peak formed part of the photo's background then you may have guessed that the area is Bo Kaap, and that the object of the photo is (what I believe to be) a bollard made many many years ago in Glasgow, Scotland (see the inscription on the enlarged photo).

At the time I never gave this bollard a second thought, but considering it now, I wonder who placed it up top of this flight of stairs, and where exactly they got the it from. Perhaps it's from the era when the current Cape Town city was still under water, forming part of Table Bay? ;)

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