Erection date: 8/5/1881
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In memory of Philip Twells, M. P., for the City of London, May 8 1881.
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Metropolitan Drinking Fountain & Cattle Trough Association
EC1, West Smithfield
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Philip Twells horse trough
Banker, barrister and MP for the City of London. Lived in Enfield where his ...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Philip Twells horse trough
The municipal governing body of the City of London. Officially the 'Mayor and...
Started by Samuel Gurney MP and the barrister, Edward Thomas Wakefield. Found...
There is another fountain in a similar style in St Pancras: Thornton's Fountain, erected in 1877.
The fountain has four basins which would have supplied water but the activating buttons and the spouts are all lost. However some back-p...
The listing entry provides: "Samuel Palmer of Huntley and Palmer's biscuits, Reading built his family home c1880 at 40 College Crescent, ...
There is a comma between Leigh and Summerville so "Summerville Halifax" describes Mrs Leigh's origins rather than "Halifax" being Mrs Lei...
The close-up picture depicts the top section of this classically-inspired monument, which shows marked similarities to the Soane tomb, sh...
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