Erection date: 1887
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Devas 1887
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Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association
SW19, Windmill Road
In the background of our photo you can see the windmill undergoing restoration.
The essential tells us that this was originally installed at Arterbury Road SW20, in September 1887 by Thomas Devas. When or why it was moved to its present location is not known.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Devas drinking trough
Wimbledon landowner and important member of local society. In 1854, Devas and...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Devas drinking trough
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The Foundling plaque is in Heathcote Street, in our photo it is in the pavement just to the right of the pedestrian (on his left).
Spring carries a bag of seeds and his job is to walk the fields casting the seeds to the ground.
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