Street furniture gone!

[Cardiarms]

Oh yes! I remember the middle bit being made out of rectangular steel sections.

[leedslily]

I think it was unveiled/opened (or whatever you do to a fountain) by some celebrity or minor royal - I seem to remember being taken along to the event as a not-very-impressed child.

[sirjohn]

ah right - pre terracotta tile days then. I never understood what the later platform was for. - maybe it was just designed as a trip hazard.

[chameleon]

sirjohn wrote: ah right - pre terracotta tile days then. I never understood what the later platform was for. - maybe it was just designed as a trip hazard. (No, that was the rest of the Pedestrian area )

[Crazy Jane]

I'm glad someone mentioned the light up pavement design outside where WH Smiths used to be. Only saw it working once, and had long since started to wonder if i'd hallucinated the whole thing.Liked the things on top of the columns though, weird structure that looked like the inside of a valve/tube!

[cnosni]

chameleon wrote: sirjohn wrote: where on earth was the old fountain? What until recently was a raiesd seating area outside WH Smith was originally - a water feature comprising a pool and fountain, often in its day, trated to a dose of washing-up liquid or similar resulting in the area being covered in foaming suds!You can just see it on here:http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?reso ... 1_78847903     Ah yes,the fountain reminds me of those happy saturday afternoons in the late 70s and eraly eighties having to get past all the various poilitical activists (NF,anti nazi leagueetc)and Jesus preachers just to get through to the old HMV that was next to the rear entrance of Marks and Spencers.

[Steve Jones]

I noticed the stuff outside WH Smiths had been removed last week whilst shopping.I wonder where all the mad evangelists and [edited for content] performers will gather now<G>?

[jf]

I broke my arm when my bike skidded over on one of those surfaces a few years back. The new surface will be an improvement I'm sure.