Richard Wyatt November 2, 2020 history

A flowerbed for Laura Place?

What a sight on a blue sky day.

With the second lockdown looming l thought l had better get back into my daily exercise routine and battle against the elements in my walk up the hill.

Time to pause to discuss fly-tipping, festive plans to promote the city and the possibility of a new flowerbed in the centre of Laura Place?!

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Sarah Waldock on November 2, 2020 at 11:50 am

the fountain isn’t original so I mind less if they turn it into a flowerbed; my thought is that a lot depends on the cost to repair/maintain, because if this is prohibitive, it would perhaps be better to concentrate on new water systems which are more readily sustainable.
A flowerbed would be pretty, the fountain when working is also pretty. I assume they would plant up the bowl the fountain plays into and perhaps have some central statuary or feature.
A cheaper alternative to the fountain might be to replace the fountain itself with a water pump of lower power to continually change the water, and make it into a water garden, perhaps with fish, lilies, flags, and other water flowers, chosen to present interest all year round, so things with interesting seedheads like flags, and cat-tails, perhaps with ferns at the edge? that would continue to celebrate Bath’s water.

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hilarytaylor12outlookcom on November 2, 2020 at 1:55 pm

A two-tiered wild flower display, would look fabulous.
Remember the display at the top of Wellsway roundabout? Everyone loved it.
You won’t have a problem with litter, and fairy liquid poured into the water, and will save money. It’s a no brainer!
Hilary Taylor
PS love your daily musings

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Arnold Root on November 2, 2020 at 5:11 pm

Really?! A flowerbed?! It’s hard to imagine a more insipid suburban idea! All the great European spaces (Amalienborg in Copenhagen https://parg.co/bKrg or the Markt in Delft https://parg.co/bKrF, or the Piazza Duomo in Syracusa https://parg.co/bKrW) spring into my mind) are empty (or possibly contain a fine equestrian statue but we may not have a spare one of those) and let the architecture speak for itself. Get rid of the dreary fountain, and the traffic, and If there must be fountains start from scratch: I’m thinking of eg the new ones in Granary Sq at Kings Cross.in front of the old Telford Warehouses.https://parg.co/bKrj though there are better examples, eg Nice.

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  Sarah Waldock on November 2, 2020 at 6:00 pm
  
  oh no, not some awful modern fountain, what an affront to the graceful buildings! It would be like seeing one’s formidable grandmother on a skateboard! at least the extant fountain is moderately timeless in style. Statuary would work. a graceful tree would work. A piece of Roman style architecture would work; I wouldn’t object to an updating of the original idea of a column after the manner of Trajan’s column perhaps depicting the story of Pride and Prejudice [or is that a little bit too twee?]. A flowerbed has the advantage of being inoffensive though I’d as soon see a water feature.
  A copy of the drinking fountain from the pump room might be nice, though I don’t suppose the same water could be easily tapped.
  
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