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Fountain

Drinking fountains - Trafalgar Square

Erection date: 1960

Inscription

Given by the Metropolitan Drinking Fountain Association 1960.

Site: Drinking fountains - Trafalgar Square (1 memorial)

WC2, Trafalgar Square

It was this post where we learnt that the two identical drinking fountains on the east and west sides of Trafalgar Square are a memorial.

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This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Drinking fountains - Trafalgar Square

Subjects commemorated i

Metropolitan Drinking Fountain Association centenary

See Metropolitan Drinking Fountain Association.  

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This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Drinking fountains - Trafalgar Square

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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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Stephen Dykes Bower

Church architect.  Born Gloucester.  The official surveyor of the fabric for ...

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