Plaque

Samuel Palmer fountain - re-opened

Erection date: 8/10/1994

Inscription

This drinking fountain was restored by The Heath & Old Hampstead Society with funds generously donated by members of the Palmer family, The Gerald Palmer Trust, London Borough of Camden, English Heritage, Heritage of London Trust, Drinking Fountain Association, Hillsdown Holdings plc, Belsize Residents’ Association, Fitzjohn’s Residents’ Association, Tavistock Clinic Foundation and by many local people.

Mrs Peggy Jay, President of the Heath & Old Hampstead Society and great niece of Samuel Palmer performed the re-opening ceremony 8th October 1994.

Stephen Coultas - Architect
Waymans - Builders

Site: Samuel Palmer fountain (2 memorials)

NW3, College Crescent

2017: Maybe we are just unlucky but every time we come here this fountain-shelter is lost in amongst the florist's stuff. They are taking the micky, really, aren't they? We don't know who is responsible for the Christmas lights but, from Google Street View it seems they went up in winter 2014 and have not been taken down since then. Also the decorative finial has been topped with what looks like a stuffed duck. Our feeling is that someone needs to restore some dignity to this little building - Camden Council, we're looking at you!

The red and grey brick building immediately to the south of this shelter (outside our photo, to the left) is 40 College Crescent, the house built by Palmer. From Lost Hospitals of London we learn that Palmer bequeathed the house to a hospital charity and that it was, 1904-48, a children's hospital. Then it was used for training nurses, then as a nurses home. It was sold in 1995, became a budget hotel and is now, 2018, Palmers Lodge, a backpackers' hostel.

Comments are provided by Facebook, please ensure you are signed in here to see them

This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Samuel Palmer fountain - re-opened

Created by i

Belsize Residents’ Association

From their website: "The Belsize Residents Association grew out of a campaign...

Read More

Camden Council

The Town Hall in Euston Road once housed these interesting murals by Cecil Os...

Read More

English Heritage

English Heritage (officially the English Heritage Trust) is a charity that ma...

Read More

Fitzjohn’s Residents’ Association

2018: We can't find anything on-line to indicate that they are currently active.

Read More

Gerald Palmer Trust

We think this might now be the Gerald Palmer Eling Trust.

Read More

Show all 9

This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Samuel Palmer fountain - re-opened

Also at this site i

Palmer fountain

Palmer fountain

The listing entry provides: "Samuel Palmer of Huntley and Palmer's biscuits, ...

Read More

Nearby Memorials

Herbert Morrison - Bromley

Herbert Morrison - Bromley

BR1, Moorside Road, 7 - 9

The plaque was originally installed in the old library in Downham.

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
Cleopatra's needle - crew members lost

Cleopatra's needle - crew members lost

WC2, Victoria Embankment

A misnomer since there is no connection with Cleopatra at all. In 1500 BC Pharaoh Thothmes erected two red granite obelisks at Heliopolis...

7 subjects commemorated
David Bomberg

David Bomberg

NW2, Fordwych Road, 10

David Bomberg, 1890 - 1957, painter, lived and worked here 1928 - 1934. English Heritage

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
Hornsey Central Hospital - foundation stone, 1907

Hornsey Central Hospital - foundation stone, 1907

N8, Park Road, 151, Hornsey Central Health Centre

There are 10 memorials in this area around the the war memorial building in our photo. The two pier heads are to the right of the buildin...

4 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
Stephen and Matilda

Stephen and Matilda

E1, St Katharine's Way, Matilda House

The plaque seems to have been erected to celebrate 34 years which seems odd.

1 subject commemorated

Previously viewed

Doug Mullins

Doug Mullins

SE10, Royal Hill

Doug Mullins, 1932-1991, master dairyman, born over the shop on this site.

1 subject commemorated