Erection date: 1960
Given by the Metropolitan Drinking Fountain Association 1960.
WC2, Trafalgar Square
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 memorial.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Drinking fountains - Trafalgar Square
See Metropolitan Drinking Fountain Association.
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Drinking fountains - Trafalgar Square
Started by Samuel Gurney MP and the barrister, Edward Thomas Wakefield. Found...
Church architect. Born Gloucester. The official surveyor of the fabric for ...
The (non-working) water fountain is located in a small garden next to the Hanwell Community Centre.
Interesting that no artist is named for this sculpture. As far as we can tell all the names on the plaque are of those in the council wh...
The fountain has four basins which would have supplied water but the activating buttons and the spouts are all lost. However some back-p...
We feel the date probably gives a clue to what this substantial fountain was erected to commemorate, but we can't think what. Any ideas?
This figure represents the woman of Samaria (a Samaritan) at the well, from St John's gospel.
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