Erection date: 8/5/1881
{On the side facing the garden:}
In memory of Philip Twells, M. P., for the City of London, May 8 1881.
{On the side facing the road:}
Metropolitan Drinking Fountain & Cattle Trough Association
EC1, West Smithfield
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Philip Twells horse trough
Banker, barrister and MP for the City of London. Lived in Enfield where his ...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Philip Twells horse trough
The municipal governing body of the City of London. Officially the 'Mayor and...
Started by Samuel Gurney MP and the barrister, Edward Thomas Wakefield. Found...
The inscription text is taken from a modern (and indeed rather nasty) plaque attached to the east side of the plinth. For our close-up s...
The sons erect the splendid water fountain and the daughters erect the utilitarian water trough. Does this tell us something about their ...
DrinkingFountains gives two pictures from the 'Illustrated London News' of this fountain when it was originally installed. From a close e...
Silver Tiger thinks the inscriptions reads "G. G." and that might be right (it's certainly punningly right) but our fingers read "C. G." ...
{Carved in the granite pedestal:} Presented by Emily Bessie Orbell, July 1885.
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