{On the east end:}
In memoriam Charles Kingsley
{Above this there seems to be an 'F' but any other letters are illegible.}
{On the north side:}
Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association
NW1, Chalk Farm Road
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Charles Kingsley water trough - NW1
Born Devon. Christian Socialist and amateur naturalist. Supported his friend,...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Charles Kingsley water trough - NW1
Started by Samuel Gurney MP and the barrister, Edward Thomas Wakefield. Found...
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Donated in 1950. The surrounding terrace layout was designed by Goetze in collaboration with Duncan Campbell in 1938. Sculptor: William ...
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The fountain has four basins which would have supplied water but the activating buttons and the spouts are all lost. However some back-p...
This corner is well-supplied with water. To the left of our photo, closer to the flower stall there is a granite horse trough, very simil...
Born to the King of Castile she was aged 13 when she married the future King of England, Edward I. It was a political, arranged marriage which seems to have been happy and successful as well, if 16...
Sculptor. Born Lyon. Made his reputation in 1749 with the tomb of the Duke of Argyll in Westminster Abbey. Died penniless.
There are 22 statues on the façade of this building. Each is labelled with his (always 'his') surname. There are 12 at the top up against...
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