Erection date: 1913
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Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association
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Erected by the help of Friends in Hampton District 1913.
TW12, Park Road
Nice flowers in the upper level. Surely not even a dog would want to drink from the lower level?
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Drinking trough - Hampton friends
This phrase sounds rather formal but is probably just a short way of saying "...
Started by Samuel Gurney MP and the barrister, Edward Thomas Wakefield. Found...
This 'Matilda fountain' is a copy of the 1867 statue 'At the Spring' or 'Early Morn' held at Blackburn Town Hall, or possibly that is a ...
The figure on top is St Paul, of course.
With information provided by Paul Frecker (see GMA's page) we found Soho and its Associations,1895 which gives: "A handsome granite drink...
To the memory of William Gilson Humphrey B.D. Scholar divine Vicar of this parish from 1855 to 1886 Born Jan. 1815 Died Jan. 1886
The medallion was sculpted in 1886. Chelsea says: "It appears to be based on a lithograph published in 1885 and held in the National Por...
