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...
With information provided by Paul Frecker (see GMA's page) we found Soho and its Associations,1895 which gives: "A handsome granite drink...
The Living Stream: Holy Wells in Historical Context By James Rattue, 1995 says "As his lands included the parish of St Govor in west Wale...
The arch from the Victorian drinking fountain has been rescued and reused above a modern drinking fountain, which no longer produces wate...
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...
In the background of our photo you can see the windmill undergoing restoration. The essential MDFCTA tells us that this was originally i...
York Way, which runs from King's Cross up to Camden Road, used to be called Maiden (corruption of midden, meaning dung heap) Lane. From ...
English Heritage Sir Gerald Kelly, 1879 - 1972, portrait painter lived here, 1916 - 1972.
The man on the 1905 plaque is probably not F. Milton Harvey who would have been only 29. Perhaps his father?
First Lieutenant Harry Lee Ayres was born on 19 January 1920 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, the son of Henry Lee Ayres (1892-1985) and Jennie C. Ayres née Mills (1893-1985). He joined the Royal A...
