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Buxton Memorial Fountain, Victoria Tower Gardens by ell brown

The Victoria Tower and Victoria Tower Gardens in Westminster. The gardens are along the north bank of the River Thames This is the Buxton Memorial Fountain in the Victoria Tower Gardens. It is a memorial in London, that commemorates the emancipation of slaves in the British Empire in 1834. It was commissioned by Charles Buxton MP, dedicated to his father Thomas Fowell Buxton and all those involved with the abolition of slavery including William Wilberforce. It was designed by gothic architect Samuel Sanders Teulon in 1865. It was erected between 1865-66. The fountain is no longer working. It was restored in 2007. It is Grade II* listed. <a href="http://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=207428&amp;resourceID=5" rel="nofollow">Buxton Memorial Fountain - Heritage Gateway</a>
Buxton Memorial Fountain is a tourist attraction, one of the Fountains in Londrez, Rouantelezh Unanet Breizh-Veur ha Norzhiwerzhon. It is located: 492 km from Birmingham, 530 km from Nottingham, 870 km from Liverpool. Read further
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