Erection date: 8/5/1881
{On the side facing the garden:}
In memory of Philip Twells, M. P., for the City of London, May 8 1881.
{On the side facing the road:}
Metropolitan Drinking Fountain & Cattle Trough Association
EC1, West Smithfield
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Philip Twells horse trough
Banker, barrister and MP for the City of London. Lived in Enfield where his ...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Philip Twells horse trough
The municipal governing body of the City of London. Officially the 'Mayor and...
Started by Samuel Gurney MP and the barrister, Edward Thomas Wakefield. Found...
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The Latin quotation is interesting. It is from the Bible, Proverbs 3;16, and our Latin consultant, David Hopkins, translates it as "In h...
{On the east end:} In memoriam Charles Kingsley {Above this there seems to be an 'F' but any other letters are illegible.} {On the nor...
DrinkingFountains gives two pictures from the 'Illustrated London News' of this fountain when it was originally installed. From a close e...
Chairman of Cripplegate Institute in 1894. Henry James Felton is listed as a churchwarden at St Giles Cripplegate in 1885 and as a vestryman in 1887. His son, Charles Page Felton, attended City of...
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