~Notes
Metropolitan Cattle Trough
A London escapee - got as far as Sussex.
Commissioned around 1880 by Captain R B Drummond, then Chief of Police for West Sussex, and inscribed (other side) in memory of him and his daughter (Evie). He also commissioned extant troughs in Brighton and Steyning, the latter also being a Metropolitan.
It's a little battered and has almost certainly been moved as it's now on a grass verge in a strangely incongruous position, almost opposite the Capitol theatre and not too far from the Drinking Fountain. This appears to be the 'Granolithic' stonework, a cheaper, less hardwearing material which does not polish like granite. Essentially I think it's a promotional tradename for Concrete. It's rough surface seems to provide a good substrate on which mosses can grow, but as a rule I don't think they make very good flower pots...
The steeply angled shot is courtesy of Electricité de France, who were currently digging up all around it, and leaving barriers and bollards all over the place so this was about the only reasonable angle I could get - though it does at least highlight the cup/chain mounting point - these did supply clean water for humans as well as animals, the 'for humans' water supply tapped in to the little semicircular trough.
I couldn't see any markings to suggest removed bollards, but there was a stain suggesting that an original cradle-type mount had been replaced with this simpler stand, though the small animals 'dog' trough has survived between the new 'feet'.
Metropolitan Cattle Trough
A London escapee - got as far as Sussex.
Commissioned around 1880 by Captain R B Drummond, then Chief of Police for West Sussex, and inscribed (other side) in memory of him and his daughter (Evie). He also commissioned extant troughs in Brighton and Steyning, the latter also being a Metropolitan.
It's a little battered and has almost certainly been moved as it's now on a grass verge in a strangely incongruous position, almost opposite the Capitol theatre and not too far from the Drinking Fountain. This appears to be the 'Granolithic' stonework, a cheaper, less hardwearing material which does not polish like granite. Essentially I think it's a promotional tradename for Concrete. It's rough surface seems to provide a good substrate on which mosses can grow, but as a rule I don't think they make very good flower pots...
The steeply angled shot is courtesy of Electricité de France, who were currently digging up all around it, and leaving barriers and bollards all over the place so this was about the only reasonable angle I could get - though it does at least highlight the cup/chain mounting point - these did supply clean water for humans as well as animals, the 'for humans' water supply tapped in to the little semicircular trough.
I couldn't see any markings to suggest removed bollards, but there was a stain suggesting that an original cradle-type mount had been replaced with this simpler stand, though the small animals 'dog' trough has survived between the new 'feet'.