This horse trough was built by the City of Port Melbourne in the 1940s from a design by City Engineer, Fred Cook.
The construction of a horse trough in this location demonstrates how horse drawn transport was still very much is use around the time of the Second World War.
Long time Ross St resident, Glen Stuart, remembers the railway yards (now Turner Reserve) as a busy place where
timber, coal and briquettes were loaded onto horse drawn carts and taken through the streets of Port to destinations further afield.
Glen's father, William, delivered milk from the Gladesdale Dairy (273 Bridge St
) which the Stuart family operated until the mid 1950s.
The Seaside Dairy in Graham operated for many years by the Butcher family delivered milk by horse drawn cart to the precinct well into the 1980s.
The trough is listed as a structure of local significance in the City of Port Phillip Heritage Review, Version 2, 2000.
