{Carved into the western end:}
The gift of Mrs Leigh, Summerville Halifax 1899
{Carved into the northern side:}
Metropolitan Drinking Fountain & Cattle Trough Association
There is a comma between Leigh and Summerville so "Summerville Halifax" describes Mrs Leigh's origins rather than "Halifax" being Mrs Leigh Summerville's home town.
EC1, City Road
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Mrs Leigh
Andrew Behan has researched this lady and discovered the following: Born abo...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Mrs Leigh
Started by Samuel Gurney MP and the barrister, Edward Thomas Wakefield. Found...
We'd give odds that most Londoners have never heard of Princes Circus but it's there on the map, at the junction of Shaftesbury Avenue, S...
The "C F K" is extremely difficult to decipher, we read it more with our fingers than our eyes.
Pink and grey polished granite, sandstone capital and a ball finial in the form of an orb. Surrounded by eight pink granite bollards. Th...
This is the only fountain/trough in Tower Hamlets on the mdfcta site.
From the RBKC pdf: "This trough was originally erected in 1900 in Kensington Crescent. The crescent was demolished in 1933 (the site is n...
