Drinking Fountain - Southwark Park, Rotherhithe, SE16
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Drinking Fountain - Southwark Park, Rotherhithe, SE16
Image: © Chris Lordan Taken: 9 Sep 2009
Erected in the north section of the park in 1884 being paid for by public subscriptions. Believed the first public memorial to a working man, Jabez West, who from 1875 was a leading member of the Bermondsey Temperance Movement.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.498446
Longitude
-0.063748