The cow's right ear must have dropped off.
SW3, Old Church Street, 38-48, The Old Diary
We've numbered the lovely tiled panels left to right.
See our page about the dairy for our attempt to understand the geography of the site with reference to a 1865 map.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Wright’s Dairy - Old Church Street - cow's head on front building
Founded in 1796 by a Mr Wright, whose son, W. H. Wright carried on the busine...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Wright’s Dairy - Old Church Street - cow's head on front building
In Google satellite view you can see that the set-back building originally ha...
The text is misleading - ye early mower is actually whetting his whistle.
The milkmaid carries her milking pail on her head and her milking stool on he...
The quotation on the main plinth is adapted from the Apocryphal book of the Wisdom of Solomon, Chapter 3, Verses 2 - 4.
Dickens was a boy of 12 when he passed this sign on his way to work in 1824. The original shop sign is now in the Cuming Museum. This r...
This memorial has its own webpage: Broadcasting House memorial. The 10 metre high inverted glass spire (or plastic beaker) is lit at nig...
From Birkbeck: "The sculpture, which is thought to have been created in the 1950s, is approximately 1.2 metres high not including its pli...
The cow's head is on the third floor, front elevation. Library Time Machine has an early drawing of this building, one of the branches o...
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