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 figure on top is St Paul, of course.
The four pediments of this edifice contain: north - a clock face west - Prince Albert relief bust south - Jehangir relief bust east -...
In our photo the tree plaque can be seen to the right of the monument.
If this rather barren 60s paved area looks familiar perhaps you recognise it from the first scene in Antonioni's Blowup, from 1966.
The fountain has four basins which would have supplied water but the activating buttons and the spouts are all lost. However some back-p...
Born Montagu House, Whitehall. Married Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester in 1935. Mother of Richard Duke of Gloucester. President, and from 1937 Patron, of the Guild of the Royal Hospital of St Bart...
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