Wimbledon Common Rangers Yard
DRINKING FOUNTAIN & CATTLE TROUGH
ASSOCIATION
THREE FRIENDS
1881
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| Location | In the Wimbledon Common Rangers Stableyard just inside the front door facing the main door. |
| Side inscription | METROPOLITAN DRINKING FOUNTAIN & CATTLE TROUGH ASSOCIATION |
| Side inscription | (unknown – the trough is too close to a wall) |
| Front inscription | THE GIFT OF THREE FRIENDS 1881 |
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| MDFCTA number | 0793 |
| Type and size | Trough 1c 9ft 6in granite |
| Original location | Hampstead. Junction of Maitland Park and Haverstock Hill. |
| Date erected | October 1881 |
| Comments | The gift of “Three Friends” viz. J.H.Buxton, Sir Fowell Buxton & E.S.Hanbury. John Henry Buxton was a trustee of the Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association. The son of Thomas Fowell Buxton (and grandson of the first baronet) and Rachel Jane Buxton (nee Gurney), John Henry Buxton was director of Truman, Hanbury, Buxton Brewery and chairman of the London Hospital. This trough is one of many "Buxton troughs". In June 1956, Lt. Col. W.Whitehead, the then Head Ranger of Wimbledon Common, arranged for two 9ft 6in troughs to be moved from Hampstead to the Common - "One to be used for ornamental purposes in the garden of a large house on the common; the other will be installed in the stable yard". This trough is now in the stable yard but is there another trough in the garden of one of the houses on the common? Please please email me if you know there whereabouts of the second trough moved by Lt. Col. Whitehead in 1956. |