{Inscribed on the long plaque of red granite at the top:}
The gift of Henry Sterry Esqr.
{and on red granite lower down:}
1859
A lovely fountain, with its egg-and-dart cornicing and gaping mouth, which presumably is where the functioning parts once sat.
SE1, Abbey Street
The early 19th century building was a watch house.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Henry Sterry fountain
The Quakers list a Henry Sterry born 1803 in the parish of St George the Mart...
Press the button and the water spouts from behind the lower lily leaf. It works!
The fountain has four basins which would have supplied water but the activating buttons and the spouts are all lost. However some back-p...
There is another trough with the same inscription further west along the road.
It was this Londonist post where we learnt that the two identical drinking fountains on the east and west sides of Trafalgar Square are a...
"1 Thess. 1-3" is a biblical reference, the text of which reads: "Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and...
The land between Tooley Street and the Thames has been occupied by wharves and warehouses since the middle ages. Hay's Wharf originated as a Tooley Street brew-house of which Alexander Hay took own...
Sculptor. Born Forest Hill into a family of Swiss origin. Died London. Other work in London: Passmore Edwards Library E3, Methodist Central Hall (with Henry Poole) and the 1893 Perseus Rescuing ...
An information board, just to the right of our photo, says: "Royal Northern Gardens occupies part of the old Royal Northern Hospital sit...
Chairman of the Building Committee for the Lauderdale Road Synagogue in 1895.
Chairman of the Smithfield Markets Committee, 1888.
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