{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...
This corner is well-supplied with water. To the left of our photo, closer to the flower stall there is a granite horse trough, very simil...
This water trough was not here Spring-Summer 2011 but in January 2012 SilverTiger featured it on his blog. Had it been moved here from it...
The water source was discovered at the end of the 17th century. 'Chalybeate' denotes a natural mineral spring containing iron salts. At t...
The book-selling business set up by her husband still trades as Sotheran's Rare Books and Prints at 2-5 Sackville Street, less than 100 y...
The gardens’ information board is interesting: St George’s Gardens was one of the very first burial grounds to be established away from ...
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