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...
A lovely fountain, with its egg-and-dart cornicing and gaping mouth, which presumably is where the functioning parts once sat.
In our photo the tree plaque can be seen to the right of the monument.
In Victorian monograms the letters are often closely linked, often knotted together or sharing a downstroke, but these two appear relucta...
The garden's modern information board reads: This garden was acquired by the church of St John the Evangelist, Smith Square, for the use ...
This figure represents the woman of Samaria (a Samaritan) at the well, from St John's gospel.
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