{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 inscription is carried by two glazed tiles, one of which has been broken and repaired. There's a bit of a puzzle here. It's a fair a...
{On the (non-working) drinking fountain, on the top surface on the north side:} The Andrew Gibb drinking fountain {On the plaque:} The A...
This trough was originally installed in 1892 at Victoria Embankment, "near Temple Precincts" which must mean somewhere between Temple Pla...
These four limestone blocks need a good clean. The PMSA incorrectly identifies the creature as the 'Bermondsey dragon' but does confirm ...
If the name of the Association had been shorter do you think the troughs would have been too?
