While many local supporters of Port Melbourne Football Club have travelled to home games on foot, horse-drawn transport was used in Port Melbourne throughout much of the twentieth century, and a number of public water troughs for horses have been preserved around Port Melbourne. This horse trough was constructed in the early 1940s at the order of Fred Cook, the Port Melbourne Council City Engineer, not to be confused with Port Melbourne Football Club's champion goal-kicker of the same name. This trough was originally located ten metres further along Ingles Street nearer to Williamstown Road, and was likely to have been constructed in part to meet the needs of horses who were tethered outside North Port Oval during games and major events.
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