TThe Reverend Charles Kingsley (1819 - 1875) was one of the Victorian age's most prolific authors and social reformers. Perhaps best known for his novels "The Water-Babies" and "Westward Ho!" he also fought for sanitary reform after a cholera epidemic that started in Jacob's Island, Bermondsey. It is appropriate that several troughs were erected in memory of him, at least one by his wife Frances "Fanny" Grenfell.