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...
There is another trough with the same inscription further west along the road.
In Victorian monograms the letters are often closely linked, often knotted together or sharing a downstroke, but these two appear relucta...
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...
Below the lion's head roundel are 5 nozzles. We were there on an extremely hot August day and would have welcomed the sound of water. P...
Granite and Portland stone, Restored 2018. The MDFCTA informs "An 18ft cattle trough, paid by Mrs. Hansler, with the same inscription t...
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