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 ...
{Carved in the marble surface at the back:} Erected to the memory of H. Hayhill by his friends in HM Exchequer and Audit Dept. 1882.
This is a very unusual monument for the time, being in honour of a working man.
Due to strong shadows it was only on our fourth visit that we managed to take a good photo of this important mosaic. High up on the edifi...
Why (Oh why, oh why) do people chose dark, coloured granite for inscriptions? The mottling in the granite can make the text almost impos...
We'd guess that Percy was fond of dogs and that he lived in Kensington, but we don't know.
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