Description
An illustration from "The Family Friend" published by S.W. Partridge & Co. (London, 1880). Built at Wood Green in 1880, this memorial to the founder of the 'Band of Mercy' animal welfare group (which later merged with the RSPCA), Mrs Catherine Smithies, contained drinking fountains and basins "for the use of the public". It was moved to its present site in Bounds Green Road in 1904.