{On the southern end:}
The gift of Mrs Robinson of St Georges' Place, Hyde Park Corner
{On both sides:}
Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association
E8, Mare Street
If the name of the Association had been shorter do you think the troughs would have been too?
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Robinson's trough
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Robinson's trough
Started by Samuel Gurney MP and the barrister, Edward Thomas Wakefield. Found...
Doesn't this picture of the alms houses just make you weep? A London Inheritance has a photographic analysis of how this area has change...
Press the button and the water spouts from behind the lower lily leaf. It works!
The 1893 statue commonly known as 'Eros' was apparently erected as his brother, Anteros, the 'Angel of Christian Charity', but it is so o...
The new plaque (not shown) is rather brash but we like how the wording refers back to the earlier inscription.
