Future Liverpool: Fountains!

[essexscouse]

I have vague recollections of a drinking fountain in princes park (could have been seffie) it was built into a wall and was a lions head with a small water spout out of its mouth you had to push a button to turn the water on to drink

[az_gila]

Yes... I remember that too... _ or I might have been thinking of the more ornate one linked below...

I'm voting for Seffie Park though, since we rarely visited Princes Park.

I think it's the "Gothic Fountain" shown on page 3 here...

http://www.liverpool.gov.uk/Images/tcm21-116408.pdf

[Ged]

There is a fountain at Liverpool 1 which marks the boundary wall of the first dock. It is named in commemoration of William Hutchinson and Rob Ainsworth did a good piece on him/it in the historical societies handbook last year. See more here: http://quazen.com/reference/biograph...dlian-of-1797/


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[empeebee]

Point taken, MissInformed.
Let's differentiate between drinking fountains, and public display ones, as this is a subject I've never considered before.

Public display ones in Liverpool are very few:
Steble Fountain, William Brown Street.
Williamson Square.
The Buckets behind Beetham Plaza (ex Wilberforce House).
and ?.

I never knew that the Eros Statue was supposed to be a fountain - proves that it's never worked in the 30-odd years I've been in Liverpool.

Round about the time of the Garden Festival, there was a short-lived one in either Princes or Sefton Park.
So short-lived that I can't remember which park!

Do burst water-mains count?

There certainly was a fountain in Princes Park in the '80s and it didn't last long. This was a public display one, not a drinking fountain, being a 20-30 foot jet of water projected upwards from the middle of the lake. I believe it was removed after an accident involving a young boy - one of the first examples of over-zealous Health & Safety actions? I do know that anglers ( for oxygenation reasons) and some members of the Friends Of Princes Park are in favour of re-installing it.

Much earlier (anyone know when or when it stopped working?) there was a drinking fountain built into the Yates Obelisk near the main gates of Princes Park.