Erection date: 1960
Given by the Metropolitan Drinking Fountain Association 1960.
WC2, Trafalgar Square
It was this Londonist post where we learnt that the two identical drinking fountains on the east and west sides of Trafalgar Square are a memorial.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Drinking fountains - Trafalgar Square
See Metropolitan Drinking Fountain Association.
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Drinking fountains - Trafalgar Square
Started by Samuel Gurney MP and the barrister, Edward Thomas Wakefield. Found...
Church architect. Born Gloucester. The official surveyor of the fabric for ...
Here we have a plaque commemorating a lost fountain. It was only removed in 1964 so we are surprised that we can find so little informati...
We'd guess that Percy was fond of dogs and that he lived in Kensington, but we don't know.
If this rather barren 60s paved area looks familiar perhaps you recognise it from the first scene in Antonioni's Blowup, from 1966.
{On the east end:} In memoriam Charles Kingsley {Above this there seems to be an 'F' but any other letters are illegible.} {On the nor...
The decoration on the urn is delightful. Strung between 4 classical style masks are fruit garlands supporting a variety of creatures: s...
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