Fountain

Hansler drinking fountain

Erection date: /12/1877

Inscription

{Inscribed in the granite:}
This fountain and trough were erected in memory of Capt. Robert Hansler JP for Middlesex by his widow, May 27, 1877.

{On the small plaque on the wall above and to the right:}
St Pancras - public drinking fountain.

Granite and Portland stone, Restored 2018. 

The MDFCTA informs "An 18ft cattle trough, paid by Mrs. Hansler, with the same inscription that was erected near to this wall fountain was removed in February 1897 and re-erected at Battle Bridge."  And gives December 1877 as the date of erection. The May date in the inscription was the Captain's date of death.

The drinking fountain, the trough and a urinal are all shown on this corner in an 1895 map.  Battle Bridge is often taken to mean the most northerly section of Gray's Inn Road where there certainly has been no cattle trough for the last 15 years.

Site: Hansler drinking fountain (1 memorial)

NW1, Pancras Road, St Pancras Station

A 5-minute long, very professional and corporate video about the 2018 restoration of this drinking fountain. When we last checked, in May 2019, it was still dispensing water, hoorah!

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This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
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Captain Robert Hansler

JP for Middlesex. At Rootschat we found a "Captain Robert Jacob Hansler, a ma...

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Marianne Hansler

Marianne Sophia Hansler, née Collis, the daughter of the late Joseph Collis s...

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