{On the end of the trough:}
The gift of L.S. and B.S. to commemorate 25 years of happy married life, 1881.
{On the sides of the trough:}
Metropolitan Drinking Fountain & Cattle Trough Association
E9, Lauriston Road
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Happy married life
A couple married in 1856 and still so happy 25 years later, that they erect a...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Happy married life
Started by Samuel Gurney MP and the barrister, Edward Thomas Wakefield. Found...
MDFCTA confirms that this fountain is of a unique design but we can find no reference to the designer/architect.
{On the (non-working) drinking fountain, on the top surface on the north side:} The Andrew Gibb drinking fountain {On the plaque:} The A...
Why (Oh why, oh why) do people chose dark, coloured granite for inscriptions? The mottling in the granite can make the text almost impos...
{Carved in the marble surface at the back:} Erected to the memory of H. Hayhill by his friends in HM Exchequer and Audit Dept. 1882.
We love the elaborately correct use of English: "... in the acquisition of which for ...". To us it seems exaggerated, convoluted. Did ...
Born Dublin. Socialist, member of the Fabian Society. Plays include: Saint Joan, Major Barbara and Pygmalion on which My Fair Lady is based. Didn't like his first name, "Don't George me!" so is oft...
Person, Literature, Politics & Administration, Seriously Famous, Theatre, Ireland
Londonist gives a deliciously grim description of the process of being hung, drawn and quartered. This plaque gives a contemporary view ...
Irish social reformer and suffragist. Writer, social reformer, anti-vivisection activist and leading women's suffrage campaigner. She founded a number of animal advocacy groups, including the Nati...
We find the terminology used on the information board confusing; 'bastion' is used when 'ha-ha' would make more sense. British History s...
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