Started by Samuel Gurney MP and the barrister, Edward Thomas Wakefield. Founded as the Metropolitan Free Drinking Fountain Association it changed its name to include cattle troughs in 1867. have a terrific post about this organisation.
is a great site, aiming to collect all these troughs and fountains, and not just those in London. Do let them know of any they don't yet have.
Now the , they are still trying to provide water to the public - probably more difficult now than when they started.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association
This 'Matilda fountain' is a copy of the 1867 statue 'At the Spring' or 'Earl...
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association
{On a ground level plaque:} 1859 - 1939. Presented by the Metropolitan Drink...
MDFCTA confirms that this fountain is of a unique design but we can find no r...
Is it likely that the beloved friend was a horse or dog rather than a person?
{On one end:} The gift of J. H. Buxton, 1879 {On both sides:} Metropolitan D...
This is the only fountain/trough in Tower Hamlets on the mdfcta site.
100,000 costermongers' donkeys worked in and around the market. Â The picture source says: "In the 1860s there were as many as 2,000 donkey barrows on a Saturday morning in Covent Garden Market."
Founded by Mary Tealby in 1860 as the Temporary Home for Lost and Starving Dogs. She established a place where people could send lost dogs from the streets and where their owners could retrieve th...
One of a number of organisations active in the 1920s promoting animal welfare.
The interment register at St Olaves Hart Street records Mother Goose being buried on 14 September 1586. This is extremely strange so we did some digging. The story of a goose laying golden eggs ca...
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