The gift of Marmaduke Langdale, Esq., 1859.
WC2, Endell Street
The arch from the Victorian drinking fountain has been rescued and reused above a modern drinking fountain, which no longer produces water. Not a successful project, functionally or aesthetically.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Marmaduke's drinking fountain
Active in 1859. Via JudyGr we found "1794: Langdale Marmaduke & Thomas, D...
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...
Spring carries a bag of seeds and his job is to walk the fields casting the seeds to the ground.
The rear of the fountain has a little door with a keyhole, presumably to provide access to the water-delivering mechanism - so long unused.
The remains of the church of St Mary Aldermanbury are behind this fountain.
The new plaque (not shown) is rather brash but we like how the wording refers back to the earlier inscription.
Resident of Willesden who volunteered and died in the Anglo Boer War, 1899-1900.
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