{On the southern end:}
The gift of Mrs Robinson of St Georges' Place, Hyde Park Corner
{On both sides:}
Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association
E8, Mare Street
If the name of the Association had been shorter do you think the troughs would have been too?
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Robinson's trough
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Robinson's trough
Started by Samuel Gurney MP and the barrister, Edward Thomas Wakefield. Found...
This is the only fountain/trough in Tower Hamlets on the mdfcta site.
The Christ Church fountain is one of several drinking fountains that Edwards funded through the Metropolitan Drinking fountain and Cattle...
When we published this trough in April 2015 we bemoaned the lack of information on Mr and Mrs Wilson. Andrew Behan, took on the challenge...
The MDFCTA site says it was erected in March 1888 and was the gift of Mrs Swaam (surely a mistype for Swaab) and cost £115.0.0.Â
If this rather barren 60s paved area looks familiar perhaps you recognise it from the first scene in Antonioni's Blowup, from 1966.
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