Fountain

Trotter's trough - SW4

Erection date: 1881

Inscription

{On both long sides:}
Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association

{The northern end has lost a plaque. The southern end is inscribed:}
In memoriam Robert Trotter Esq, 1877 

MDFCTA says this was originally erected in 1881 outside The Plough in Clapham, which we think might have been at 156 Clapham High Street, to the east of the trough's current site.

Site: Trotter's trough - SW4 (1 memorial)

SW4, The Pavement

This trough is fenced in, on its own, in quite a large wooded pasture.

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This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Trotter's trough - SW4

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Robert Trotter

Initially we could find nothing about Trotter but shortly after publishing th...

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Trotter's trough - SW4

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Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association

Started by Samuel Gurney MP and the barrister, Edward Thomas Wakefield. Found...

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