Let's Drink To Violet

A memorial drinking fountain on Bromleigh House, Abbey Street


 IN MEMORY OF
  VIOLET ALICE
      TRITTON
    1883   1956


  A FRIEND OF
 BERMONDSEY
FOR MORE THAN
  FIFTY YEARS


          1959


Violet Alice Tritton worked at Time and Talents, a hostel for young working girls and women on Bermondsey Street. This was erected in 1959 at a time when the estate was being built. It is a line of children's heads undertaken by Students from the Sculpture Department of Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts.
Info from Edith's Streets, a blog about the history of London's streets