Erection date: 1913
{On the road side:}
Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association
{On the pavement side:}
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...
{On the end of the trough:} The gift of L.S. and B.S. to commemorate 25 years of happy married life, 1881. {On the sides of the trough:}...
The text is inscribed into the main body of the fountain but can really only be read with the fingers. As is common nowadays, the founta...
{On the east face:} In memory of Sir James John Hamilton Bart., 1876The memory of the just is blessed.{There are 3 more biblical quotati...
Spring carries a bag of seeds and his job is to walk the fields casting the seeds to the ground.
{South-west side:} Erected by the inhabitants of Mitcham in commemoration of the Jubilee of H.M. Queen Victoria 1887. {North-east side:}...
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