Erection date: 1887
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Erected by the inhabitants of Mitcham in commemoration of the Jubilee of H.M. Queen Victoria 1887.
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Metropolitan Drinking Fountain & Cattle Trough Association
CR4, Cricket Green
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Queen Victoria Golden Jubilee cattle trough - Mitcham
The fiftieth anniversary of the accession of Queen Victoria was celebrated on...
Reigned: 1837-1901, 64 years. Born Kensington Palace. Daughter of Edward, Duk...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Queen Victoria Golden Jubilee cattle trough - Mitcham
Started by Samuel Gurney MP and the barrister, Edward Thomas Wakefield. Found...
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...
{On long, low bronze plaques, one on each face, starting at the south and going clockwise:} To commemorate the jubilee of The Metropolit...
If the name of the Association had been shorter do you think the troughs would have been too?
The drinking fountain looks more recent than 1960 and this film of the unveiling confirms our supposition that the plaque was originally ...
This is a very unusual monument for the time, being in honour of a working man.
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