The Burdett-Coutts Memorial Drinking Fountain
Presented in 1862
Bow Heritage Trail
E9, Victoria Park
2016: We've replaced our 2012 dull and cold-looking photos with those our colleague, Alan Patient, took on his sunny visit.
In the 19th century this was the site of the East End's own Speakers' Corner.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Burdett-Coutts - Victoria Park - plaque
One of the great Victorian philanthropists who sought to rid London of its sl...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Burdett-Coutts - Victoria Park - plaque
The name was originally applied to the Tower division of the county of Middle...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Burdett-Coutts - Victoria Park - plaque
This extravaganza in Victorian gothic with Moorish touches was designed by Da...
84 Charing Cross Road. The booksellers Marks & Co. were on this site which became world renowned through the book by Helene Hanff.
The AAGBI's website provides: "On 19 December 1846, Francis Boott, an American botanist who had heard the news from Boston, watched denta...
'Barrett Barrett' was indeed her maiden name (ensuring one's inheritance sometimes required abnormal naming commitments). The text and se...
London Docks has many photographs with very useful captions. These make it clear that of the two buildings on the Quay named Commodity Qu...
Sir Kenneth Clark, 1903 - 1983, Art historian and broadcaster, lived here 1934 - 1939. English Heritage
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