The gift of Marmaduke Langdale, Esq., 1859.
WC2, Endell Street
The arch from the Victorian drinking fountain has been rescued and reused above a modern drinking fountain, which no longer produces water. Not a successful project, functionally or aesthetically.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Marmaduke's drinking fountain
Active in 1859. Via JudyGr we found "1794: Langdale Marmaduke & Thomas, D...
{On the side facing the garden:} In memory of Philip Twells, M. P., for the City of London, May 8 1881. {On the side facing the road:} M...
The lettering is incised and painted black - very effective.
It was this Londonist post where we learnt that the two identical drinking fountains on the east and west sides of Trafalgar Square are a...
The "C F K" is extremely difficult to decipher, we read it more with our fingers than our eyes.
Silver Tiger thinks the inscriptions reads "G. G." and that might be right (it's certainly punningly right) but our fingers read "C. G." ...
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