{On the road side:}
Queen Victoria, 1837 - 1901.
{On the pavement side:}
Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association
{On the west end:}
Erected by C F K
The "C F K" is extremely difficult to decipher, we read it more with our fingers than our eyes.
EC2, Finsbury Square
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Victoria's trough
Reigned: 1837-1901, 64 years. Born Kensington Palace. Daughter of Edward, Duk...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Victoria's trough
Metropolitan Drinking Fountain & Cattle Trough Association.
Started by Samuel Gurney MP and the barrister, Edward Thomas Wakefield. Found...
{On long, low bronze plaques, one on each face, starting at the south and going clockwise:} To commemorate the jubilee of The Metropolit...
{On the (non-working) drinking fountain, on the top surface on the north side:} The Andrew Gibb drinking fountain {On the plaque:} The A...
In Victorian monograms the letters are often closely linked, often knotted together or sharing a downstroke, but these two appear relucta...
The decoration on the urn is delightful. Strung between 4 classical style masks are fruit garlands supporting a variety of creatures: s...
Silver Tiger thinks the inscriptions reads "G. G." and that might be right (it's certainly punningly right) but our fingers read "C. G." ...
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