Fountain

Victoria's trough

Inscription

{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.

Site: Victoria's trough (1 memorial)

EC2, Finsbury Square

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Victoria's trough

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Queen Victoria

Reigned: 1837-1901, 64 years. Born Kensington Palace. Daughter of Edward, Duk...

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Victoria's trough

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Metropolitan Drinking Fountain & Cattle Trough Association - 80th anniversary

Metropolitan Drinking Fountain & Cattle Trough Association.

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Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association

Started by Samuel Gurney MP and the barrister, Edward Thomas Wakefield. Found...

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C. F. K.

Could this be? No, surely not. Could it be.... Charles Foster Kane?Funded the...

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