Future Liverpool: Fountains!

[PhilipG]

yep it's a drinking fountain, or was should I say!

It is not running at the minute, but I know there are plans afoot to restore some of the drinking fountains.

And it has the word fountain in it, so I say it counts!

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?

[dups45]

ive always thought about somethign in the albert dock, or is this not possible becuase there are still boats that use it?

What is the water feature going to be like in chavasse park?

[oritelad]

theres also a drinking fountain on the old waterloo tunnel opening by byron street

[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.