{Carved into the western end:}
The gift of Mrs Leigh, Summerville Halifax 1899
{Carved into the northern side:}
Metropolitan Drinking Fountain & Cattle Trough Association
There is a comma between Leigh and Summerville so "Summerville Halifax" describes Mrs Leigh's origins rather than "Halifax" being Mrs Leigh Summerville's home town.
EC1, City Road
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Mrs Leigh
Andrew Behan has researched this lady and discovered the following: Born abo...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Mrs Leigh
Started by Samuel Gurney MP and the barrister, Edward Thomas Wakefield. Found...
The remains of the church of St Mary Aldermanbury are behind this fountain.
On the ground is a ghost footprint of what could have been one of these water-fountains we remember from the 1950s, found in parks near c...
The inscription text is taken from a modern (and indeed rather nasty) plaque attached to the east side of the plinth. For our close-up s...
The gardens’ information board is interesting: St George’s Gardens was one of the very first burial grounds to be established away from ...
Supporting this lamp standard is really not a job for such small babies - they're actually clinging on for dear life. The push buttons f...
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