{On the end of the trough:}
The gift of L.S. and B.S. to commemorate 25 years of happy married life, 1881.
{On the sides of the trough:}
Metropolitan Drinking Fountain & Cattle Trough Association
E9, Lauriston Road
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Happy married life
A couple married in 1856 and still so happy 25 years later, that they erect a...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Happy married life
Started by Samuel Gurney MP and the barrister, Edward Thomas Wakefield. Found...
Erected by Metropolitan Public Gardens Association, 83 Lancaster Gate, at the sole cost of Howard Morley Esq. former resident in the loca...
{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...
The seated figures represent the three Muses; the standing figures, the three poets, and Fame blows her trumpet at the top. Three Thornyc...
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...
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