Erection date: 1881
{On both long sides:}
Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association
{The northern end has lost a plaque. The southern end is inscribed:}
In memoriam Robert Trotter Esq, 1877
says this was originally erected in 1881 outside The Plough in Clapham, which , to the east of the trough's current site.
SW4, The Pavement
This trough is fenced in, on its own, in quite a large wooded pasture.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Trotter's trough - SW4
Initially we could find nothing about Trotter but shortly after publishing th...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Trotter's trough - SW4
Started by Samuel Gurney MP and the barrister, Edward Thomas Wakefield. Found...
This is a lovely piece of sculpture. The cut off fluted column possibly indicates the "life cut short" of John Baker Law, but he died age...
{South-west side:} Erected by the inhabitants of Mitcham in commemoration of the Jubilee of H.M. Queen Victoria 1887. {North-east side:}...
This is a very unusual monument for the time, being in honour of a working man.
To the memory of William Gilson Humphrey B.D. Scholar divine Vicar of this parish from 1855 to 1886 Born Jan. 1815 Died Jan. 1886
The listing entry says that this is a rare example of a circular drinking trough of granite construction but does not comment on its stat...
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