Innerwick Jubilee Fountain & Trough, Scotland
Just a few miles from Dunbar in East Lothian in Scotland is a memorial drinking fountain and horse trough commissioned by Richard Hunter of Thurston to commemorate Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee in 1887. It is at the roadside heading west from Innerwick village to Thurston House, and is now sadly neglected and almost covered in foliage. I was much taken by the words on the memorial, which remind us how very vital horses were to our economy and way of life back in Victorian times.
Innerwick Jubilee Fountain & Trough, Scotland
Just a few miles from Dunbar in East Lothian in Scotland is a memorial drinking fountain and horse trough commissioned by Richard Hunter of Thurston to commemorate Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee in 1887. It is at the roadside heading west from Innerwick village to Thurston House, and is now sadly neglected and almost covered in foliage. I was much taken by the words on the memorial, which remind us how very vital horses were to our economy and way of life back in Victorian times.