So called fountain is a disgrace
What an eyesore (October 11 article). I totally agree about the article "Bin bags blighting the gateway to Bath" especially what was the most beautiful one, Great Pulteney Street.
I travel to and from Bradford on Avon to Bath by bus about 9.45am and am disgusted by the unsightly railing bags near the Holburne Museum. Why cannot they be collected earlier before the many visitors arrive with their cameras.
This brings me to write about the so called 'fountain' in Laura Place. Being a Bathonian I remember Bath when fountains were fountains with cascading water beautifully and appropriately placed not like this lump of concrete situated at the beginning of Great Pulteney Street which now contains rubbish and cans.
I would appeal to B&NES to either remove it and replace it with a tree or failing that try and beautify it by filling it with the Parks Department's outstanding plants and flowers of which we are so proud.
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Comments
by mhelenmary
Thursday, November 01 2012, 10:17PM
“Not only washing up liquid, but they students did a little bathing in it too. Three times in one week it was filled with bubbles. I suggested flowers railings like the one on the parade.”
by BV_BV
Friday, October 26 2012, 11:54AM
“The Laura Place fountain was usually emptied at about this time of year because students from the university have an annual novel idea that nobody had ever thought of. Washing up liquid was put in the water which soon became a sea of foam to blow into the streets. All that was really needed was an anti foam agent in the water.
I love to see fountains in Cities and would welcome the return of this one working.
I was in Monte***** recently where they don't have rubbish collections as such. They do have a number of large opening bins along roads where people take their rubbish and they are emptied quite regularly - every day or so. In towns and cities the bins are discrete. Why not adopt this idea in tourist areas such as the Paragon and Great Pulteney Street?”