{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...
This granite obelisk is crowned with a winged angel and flanked by statues of Liberty and Justice. Our picture shows the south, road-faci...
Here we have a plaque commemorating a lost fountain. It was only removed in 1964 so we are surprised that we can find so little informati...
The inscription is carried by two glazed tiles, one of which has been broken and repaired. There's a bit of a puzzle here. It's a fair a...
{Carved in the marble surface at the back:} Erected to the memory of H. Hayhill by his friends in HM Exchequer and Audit Dept. 1882.
