{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...
Not 'loving memory', nor 'grateful memory', no terms of affection at all. Either these executors never knew Miss Ratray or they knew her...
The water source was discovered at the end of the 17th century. 'Chalybeate' denotes a natural mineral spring containing iron salts. At t...
This elaborate fountain was commissioned by Bryant and May to celebrate the abolition of the proposed match tax in 1872. Erected by publ...
If this rather barren 60s paved area looks familiar perhaps you recognise it from the first scene in Antonioni's Blowup, from 1966.
The 1893 statue commonly known as 'Eros' was apparently erected as his brother, Anteros, the 'Angel of Christian Charity', but it is so o...
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