{On the road side:}
Queen Victoria, 1837 - 1901.
{On the pavement side:}
Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association
{On the west end:}
Erected by C F K
The "C F K" is extremely difficult to decipher, we read it more with our fingers than our eyes.
EC2, Finsbury Square
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Victoria's trough
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:
Victoria's trough
Metropolitan Drinking Fountain & Cattle Trough Association.
Started by Samuel Gurney MP and the barrister, Edward Thomas Wakefield. Found...
The gardens’ information board is interesting: St George’s Gardens was one of the very first burial grounds to be established away from ...
For another lovely Gothic pump, possibly the same model, see Enfield Market.
{Carved in the granite pedestal:} Presented by Emily Bessie Orbell, July 1885.
The memorial was designed by Pierce. The 4 statues were sculpted by Woodford. The fountain was inaugurated in 1954, in what is known as t...
From the RBKC pdf: "This trough was originally erected in 1900 in Kensington Crescent. The crescent was demolished in 1933 (the site is n...
