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...
DrinkingFountains gives two pictures from the 'Illustrated London News' of this fountain when it was originally installed. From a close e...
For another lovely Gothic pump, possibly the same model, see Enfield Market.
The listing entry provides: "Samuel Palmer of Huntley and Palmer's biscuits, Reading built his family home c1880 at 40 College Crescent, ...
The Crofton trough is on the left of our photo. The two other troughs here (one being outside out photo, to the right) are only marked "M...
This water trough was not here Spring-Summer 2011 but in January 2012 SilverTiger featured it on his blog. Had it been moved here from it...
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