Erection date: /7/1885
{Carved in the granite pedestal:}
Presented by Emily Bessie Orbell, July 1885.
Site: Orbell fountain - St Andrew's Gardens (1 memorial)
WC1, St Andrew's Gardens
Erection date: /7/1885
{Carved in the granite pedestal:}
Presented by Emily Bessie Orbell, July 1885.
WC1, St Andrew's Gardens
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Orbell fountain - St Andrew's Gardens
Second child of 12. Parents John and Catherine Orbell of Brundon Mill, Ballin...
This is a very unusual monument for the time, being in honour of a working man.
The listing entry provides: "Samuel Palmer of Huntley and Palmer's biscuits, Reading built his family home c1880 at 40 College Crescent, ...
The gardens’ information board is interesting: St George’s Gardens was one of the very first burial grounds to be established away from ...
The memory of the just is blessed. In memory of Joseph Payne, June 1870.
The Evening Standard has a thoughtful piece about this park.
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