Erection date: 1887
{South-west side:}
Erected by the inhabitants of Mitcham in commemoration of the Jubilee of H.M. Queen Victoria 1887.
{North-east side:}
Metropolitan Drinking Fountain & Cattle Trough Association
CR4, Cricket Green
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Queen Victoria Golden Jubilee cattle trough - Mitcham
The fiftieth anniversary of the accession of Queen Victoria was celebrated on...
Reigned: 1837-1901, 64 years. Born Kensington Palace. Daughter of Edward, Duk...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Queen Victoria Golden Jubilee cattle trough - Mitcham
Started by Samuel Gurney MP and the barrister, Edward Thomas Wakefield. Found...
Nice flowers in the upper level. Surely not even a dog would want to drink from the lower level?
Unusually the brass drinking cup on a chain is still attached.
{On the (non-working) drinking fountain, on the top surface on the north side:} The Andrew Gibb drinking fountain {On the plaque:} The A...
A lovely fountain, with its egg-and-dart cornicing and gaping mouth, which presumably is where the functioning parts once sat.
The close-up picture depicts the top section of this classically-inspired monument, which shows marked similarities to the Soane tomb, sh...
Reigned: 1901 - 1910. Born and died at Buckingham Palace. Victoria's eldest son, born as Prince Albert and known as Bertie in the family, he took the name Edward when he became king, aged almost 60...
Keningale Robert Cook was born on 26 September 1845 in Smallbridge, Rochdale, Lancashire (now Greater Manchester), a son of Robert Keningale Cook (1812-1891) and Ellen Cook née Nield (1823-1909). H...
Role on the lost expedition: Able seaman on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.
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