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...
The date and the rather crudely carved tulip-like outline are on a separate piece of granite, and the Honble. Mrs Rashleigh had been dead...
The quotation on the obelisk is from the bible, Proverbs 14:27. The quotation on the trough is from the bible, Psalms 145:9. Around the ...
DrinkingFountains gives two pictures from the 'Illustrated London News' of this fountain when it was originally installed. From a close e...
We love the elaborately correct use of English: "... in the acquisition of which for ...". To us it seems exaggerated, convoluted. Did ...
The fountain has four basins which would have supplied water but the activating buttons and the spouts are all lost. However some back-p...
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