Erection date: 31/10/1912
Presented to the Hackney Borough Council by Morris Nelson Esqre. in memory of his wife Esther, unveiled by Councillor William Hammer JP, Mayor of Hackney, 31st October 1912.
E8, Mare Street, St Thomas Square
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
The Nelsons' drinking fountain
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
The Nelsons' drinking fountain
This corner is well-supplied with water. To the left of our photo, closer to the flower stall there is a granite horse trough, very simil...
There is another fountain in a similar style in St Pancras: Thornton's Fountain, erected in 1877.
The Ward drinking fountain is to the left of the gate. The Wesley plaque is to the right.
In Victorian monograms the letters are often closely linked, often knotted together or sharing a downstroke, but these two appear relucta...
If the name of the Association had been shorter do you think the troughs would have been too?
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