Erection date: 1913
{On the road side:}
Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association
{On the pavement side:}
Erected by the help of Friends in Hampton District 1913.
TW12, Park Road
Nice flowers in the upper level. Surely not even a dog would want to drink from the lower level?
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Drinking trough - Hampton friends
This phrase sounds rather formal but is probably just a short way of saying "...
Started by Samuel Gurney MP and the barrister, Edward Thomas Wakefield. Found...
2022: Sebastian Bulmer told us about AngloBoerWar which has extensive photographs of this lovely memorial and some good information about...
Press the button and the water spouts from behind the lower lily leaf. It works!
Henry Lofts erected this fountain without naming anyone he wished to commemorate so, unusually, he is, on our website at least, commemora...
We feel the date probably gives a clue to what this substantial fountain was erected to commemorate, but we can't think what. Any ideas?
Is it likely that the beloved friend was a horse or dog rather than a person?
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