Site: Mitcham - drought relief obelisk (1 memorial)
CR4, Madeira Road, Cricket Green
From Merton Memories we learn that Reverend Richard Cranmer erected this obelisk at the corner of the Canons House grounds to commemorate the appearance of a spring and the subsequent sinking of an artesian well, at a time when low rainfall caused many shallow wells to dry up and resulted in a shortage of clean fresh water. Embarrassingly, shortly after the obelisk was erected the artesian well dried up.
Faded London has more information.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of plaquesoflondon.co.uk
