Horse Troughs
Remember the large horse trough [ I don't ] that used to be in Fitzalan Square?
I read in the My Kind of Town book that it is situated in the Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet.
Has anyone seen it? It seems remarkable that it has been "lost " for over 80 years
and was found in the undergrowth at the Hamlet.
Who knows where it has been in the between years.
Made by the North of Scotland Granite Company of red Peterhead granite.
It is now restored and polished to its former self
Anybody recognise this one? Recently appeared in the garden of a house at Bents Green.
Inscription reads "ERECTED TO THE MEMORY OF THE LATE HENRY WILSON OF WESTBROOK AND HIS SON ALFRED BY E.H.THOMPSON AND L.E.HARLAND, DAUGHTERS OF THE..." and I couldn't read the rest without trespassing!