{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...
This water trough was not here Spring-Summer 2011 but in January 2012 SilverTiger featured it on his blog. Had it been moved here from it...
Spring carries a bag of seeds and his job is to walk the fields casting the seeds to the ground.
If the name of the Association had been shorter do you think the troughs would have been too?
He sounds a stubborn prig, doesn't he? The plaque is clearly a recent addition but presumably has taken the wording directly off a damage...
This trough was originally installed in 1892 at Victoria Embankment, "near Temple Precincts" which must mean somewhere between Temple Pla...
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