{On the road side:}
Queen Victoria, 1837 - 1901.
{On the pavement side:}
Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association
{On the west end:}
Erected by C F K
The "C F K" is extremely difficult to decipher, we read it more with our fingers than our eyes.
EC2, Finsbury Square
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Victoria's trough
Reigned: 1837-1901, 64 years. Born Kensington Palace. Daughter of Edward, Duk...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Victoria's trough
Metropolitan Drinking Fountain & Cattle Trough Association.
Started by Samuel Gurney MP and the barrister, Edward Thomas Wakefield. Found...
The seated figures represent the three Muses; the standing figures, the three poets, and Fame blows her trumpet at the top. Three Thornyc...
Standing in Piccadilly one sees 4 memorials on the wall: from left to right: Sotheran Fountain, Garden, Lyttelton Fountain, Railings. The...
From the RBKC pdf: "This trough was originally erected in 1900 in Kensington Crescent. The crescent was demolished in 1933 (the site is n...
The book-selling business set up by her husband still trades as Sotheran's Rare Books and Prints at 2-5 Sackville Street, less than 100 y...
The new plaque (not shown) is rather brash but we like how the wording refers back to the earlier inscription.
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