Better or worse? I can’t make my mind up. These ‘control boxes’ for our new security slider bollards are rather large and, at least, an illustration of the more ‘beautiful’ parts of the city do break up the mass!
Meanwhile, Bath may not be hung and drawn, but it’s certainly being ‘quartered’!
Meanwhile, bollard covers proliferate and look much better. I would prefer pale blue – just to be controversial.
Oddly enough, that’s exactly what the Buchanan Report in the late 1960s recommended. He suggested quarters you could drive in and out of but not through. Another report in 1969 suggested that, in addition to Stall Street and Southgate being pedestrianised, the whole of High Street and Terrace Walk should be, as well as North Parade Road from the Parades to the east side of the bridge apart from buses, except at night.
Many years ago those naughty people from Bath Arts Worshop put up signs in Walcot Street saying Welcome to Bath’s Dog Muck Quarter. They then stuck a miniature Union Jack in the many examples to be found on the pavements the length of the street. It worked so well that the Workshop’s Natural Theatre Company got booked for Lewisham Council’s Anti-Dog Muck Week. I hasten to add that plastic dog poo in myriad varieties was used for that event! Again it worked and the council went on to book the company for their Anti-Chewing Gum Litter Day the following year.