In Memoriam
Laura Lyttelton died Easter day 1886
W1, Piccadilly
Standing in Piccadilly one sees 4 memorials on the wall: from left to right: Sotheran Fountain, Garden, Lyttelton Fountain, Railings. There are 3 more memorials in the garden and a plaque on the building outside our photo, to the left, referring to WW2 bomb damage.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Lyttelton Fountain
Laura was one of the sixteen children of wealthy Scottish industrialist and M...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Lyttelton Fountain
The railings erected to commemorate the coronation of HM Queen Elizabeth II w...
In a 1946 British Pathe news film one sees that the Garden of Remembrance was...
We love the elaborately correct use of English: "... in the acquisition of which for ...". To us it seems exaggerated, convoluted. Did ...
We'd guess that Percy was fond of dogs and that he lived in Kensington, but we don't know.
Silver Tiger thinks the inscriptions reads "G. G." and that might be right (it's certainly punningly right) but our fingers read "C. G." ...
Erected by public subscription per G. Shrubsall Esq £108.0.0. We take the date on the memorial, 3 September 1896, to be the date Mrs Woo...
There is another fountain in a similar style in St Pancras: Thornton's Fountain, erected in 1877.
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