Yo
We should have Loads of fountins in the city centre like Warrington
and the Fountin my the Liverpool World Museam is identical to one in Boston so we should have a live video link up so we can see them and they see us next to the Fountin

Thanks
Liam

Sorry cannot spell :bash:
I didnt lose my mind i sold it on ebay

and the Fountin my the Liverpool World Museam is identical to one in Boston so
Sorry cannot spell :bash:
I didnt lose my mind i sold it on ebay

Really? So there is a fountain in Boston identical to the Steble on Wm Brown Street? What is the name of the Bostonian copy? I'm in Beantown next week, so I'll look out for it. Might even take a photo of it and post it on the forum if I can find it.

Yes there is one according to the Book a Portrait of Liverpool
But thats all it says, I dont know where it is though -In boston- but i will try and Find out thou.
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Liam

Just googled it. Brewer Fountain, in front of the State House. I've been to that spot, but paid no attention to the fountain. This time I will and, I hope, take a photo of it.

I think ive found it at Massachusetts State House, Boston Common, Boston
im not 100 percent sure thou
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Liam
A pic would be gud

U beat me

Self explaining
How do u get pics on
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Liam

Welcome LiverOdysea.

type http://www.*.*
*.* is the location of your pictures

Congratulations for the beating the record of most new threads in a day and most new threads by a new user.

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Liam

Im on Dial Up as well is that Extra Points
I didnt lose my Mind I sold it on ebay

p.s How do you get The Writing at the Bottam all the time of the Posts?

Im Hot off the press.
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Liam

Im on Dial Up as well is that Extra Points
I didnt lose my Mind I sold it on ebay

p.s How do you get The Writing at the Bottam all the time of the Posts?

Hello and welcome LiverOdysea

Goto user C.P. at top left of page and then click edit signature and type what you want.

e.g. mine is 2 x web page links

Hope iv'e not confused you further with the web page links..!

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Im on Dial Up as well is that Extra Points
I didnt lose my Mind I sold it on ebay

p.s How do you get The Writing at the Bottam all the time of the Posts?

You were beginning to worry me with that Ebay stuff. I thought you were labouring the point a little. Everything is in the Control Panel which is fairly easy to get around. Get yourself an avatar while you're at it.

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Im on Dial Up as well is that Extra Points
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p.s How do you get The Writing at the Bottam all the time of the Posts?

Welcome to the Liverpool forum LiverOdysea. :cheers:

For gods sake lad get the signature sorted! You come across as a bit of a mentalist! :)

Has anyone seen the fountain thing behind the Atlantic Tower? :? Gareth took a picture of it last week.

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I didnt lose my Mind I sold it on ebay

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Definetly on extra points for dial up but good effort all the same and welcome!

Has anyone seen the fountain thing behind the Atlantic Tower? :? Gareth took a picture of it last week.

I'll put it up tonight when I get home from work.

I was hoping you'd take the hint! ;)

Yo
We should have Loads of fountins in the city centre like Warrington
and the Fountin my the Liverpool World Museam is identical to one in Boston so we should have a live video link up so we can see them and they see us next to the Fountin

Thanks
Liam

Sorry cannot spell :bash:
I didnt lose my mind i sold it on ebay
FFS! :)
More fountains than you can shake a stick at in Liverpool
http://www.liverpoolmonuments.co.uk/drinking.html

Yeah, but look at the state of most of them. They've been neglected. In West Derby, the village fountain has never worked as far as I can remember. The lantern hasn't either so we're looking at two decades minimum of neglect. The one at the entrance to Sefton Park (the entrance where you can cross over and access Princess Park - I think) used to work when I was a kid but was in poor kip when I last took a look at it. We should have more. More I say!

Yeah, but look at the state of most of them. They've been neglected. In West Derby, the village fountain has never worked as far as I can remember. The lantern hasn't either so we're looking at two decades minimum of neglect. The one at the entrance to Sefton Park (the entrance where you can cross over and access Princess Park - I think) used to work when I was a kid but was in poor kip when I last took a look at it. We should have more. More I say!
Not sure whether it's neglect or pragmatism. I mean, what's the point in the Council refurbishing them when we all know some f*****g scrote(s) will come along and vandalise them?

That's were employing Park Wardens comes into play. A clip to the back of the ear would sort them out.

That's were employing Park Wardens comes into play. I clip to the back of the ear would sort them out.

How about harpooning the c**ts and feeding them to the animals in Knowsley Safari Park? It'll get my vote :cheers:

That's were employing Park Wardens comes into play. A clip to the back of the ear would sort them out.

That's what I've always thought.

It must be cheaper to employ a park warden then waste thousand's of pounds repairing vandalised monuments, fountains and other park property.

I say stone 'em. The vandals that is, not the park wardens.

How about harpooning the c**ts and feeding them to the animals in Knowsley Safari Park? It'll get my vote :cheers:

Dave, the animals will only end up spitting them out. :bash:

I think ive found it at Massachusetts State House, Boston Common, Boston
im not 100 percent sure thou
Thanks
Liam
A pic would be gud

Done. The Brewer Fountain Boston Common, taken by me last Wednesday.

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid165/p05107f11a9c8b3f90c3a00c923144f67/f46daf29.jpg

Steblesque?

http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/3577/steble_fountain.jpg

The Boston one has a another level of statueque supporters above the lower four. Very similar design. Though. Aren't all of the four statues at the base of the Liverpool fountain female? I'm sure at least one of the four Boston ones had a beard.

Is it the same as the Steble fountain? How was Boston, you lucky Scrote? :?

Is it the same as the Steble fountain? How was Boston, you lucky Scrote? :?

I've now posted a piccie of the Steble for comparison. Boston was OK. Work mostly. Just about got used to the timezone before I had to come back.

Stayed in Boston's regenerating waterfront. There's still a way to go there, btw. A lot of the area was as empty as the central docks in Liverpool, although covered in surfact car parking.

Thanks for the PIC

yes i am still alive after my busy Firstday
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Liam

Bet the weather was better than here

Done. The Brewer Fountain Boston Common, taken by me last Wednesday.

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid165/p05107f11a9c8b3f90c3a00c923144f67/f46daf29.jpg

Steblesque?

http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/3577/steble_fountain.jpg

The Boston one has a another level of statueque supporters above the lower four. Very similar design. Though. Aren't all of the four statues at the base of the Liverpool fountain female? I'm sure at least one of the four Boston ones had a beard.
As Awayo wrote, similar design apart from another level. And all the Steble base statues are female.
http://www.**************************/steblefountain/images/image004.jpg

http://www.**************************/steblefountain/images/image005.jpg

Ta Dave. Great pics. I've just found out from a google search that the statues at the base of the Brewer fountain are Poseidon and his wife Amphitrite, Acis and his bird Galatea.

So two geezers, two birds and the bearded chap must have been Neptune.

I must have got it wrong about the Steble. I reckon the figure that we are looking straight at in the first pick is the youth Acis, glancing lovingly at Galatea (the chick in your second photo). He looks like he's got a bit of a sixpack.

[EDIT] just looked at your site, Dave. This one is showing the bearded Neptune on the right.

http://www.**************************/steblefountain/images/image001.jpg

So both statues have the same classical figures represented at their bases. This is confirmed by my copy of the Liverpool Pevsner that states that the statue is by Paul Lienard with other versions at Boston, Geneva, Launceston (Tas.), and elsewhere. It seems as if the design is not identical at every location, however. http://www.liverpoolworldheritage.com states that castings of the original statue exist also in Lyon and Bordeaux. The original was produced for the Paris exhibition in 1867 and this statue was the one shifted to Boston. Liverpool's copy looks a little more modest than the Parisian/Bostonian origian.

Here is Launceton, Tasmania's version. It looks more like the Brewer than the Steble in form. Apparently the locals were scandalised by the nymph at the top of the fountain, that was replaced with a pineapple!

http://www.greatestcities.com/7940pic/510/CP4510.jpg/Princes_Square,_Tas.jpg

One fairly unique fountain that we have in Liverpool is the bucket fountain in Williamson Square at the rear of Beetham Plaza. It is a very original idea but I've always thought it was in the wrong location, surrounded by offices and apartments.

The fountain was installed in the late 60s and consists of banana shape metal buckets on hollow poles. The buckets fill with water through the poles and when full overbalance and spill into the pool below. Some buckets are very large and cause quite a considerable splash when they finally go.

You can have hours of fun predicting which is the next one to go but the problem is that the fountain hardly ever seems to be working. I think it should be relocated to a more popular location (e.g. a second fountain for Williamson Square) and given more frequent maintenance.

Great pics fellas. :cheers:

[QUOTE=Martin S]One fairly unique fountain that we have in Liverpool is the bucket fountain in Williamson Square at the rear of Beetham Plaza. QUOTE]
williamson square???

[QUOTE=Martin S]One fairly unique fountain that we have in Liverpool is the bucket fountain in Williamson Square at the rear of Beetham Plaza. QUOTE]
williamson square???

http://img186.echo.cx/img186/1240/bucket5vd.jpg

[QUOTE=Martin S]One fairly unique fountain that we have in Liverpool is the bucket fountain in Williamson Square at the rear of Beetham Plaza. QUOTE]
williamson square???

Sorry about that, I hope its not the onset of Alzheimers. To be honest I don't know what that square is called but the fountain is off Drury Lane, just by the Corn Exchange.

Thanks for the photo Paul, it's a great sight when it's working.

Nice pic Paul, I remember it from the 1970s, I can still remember the sound of the water as the buckets emptied. Fantastic that it has survived and been preserved.

Just done a big turd before I go to bed. Thought I'd post it to you guys :)
Good night god bless :cheers:
http://www.**************************/wmsqfountain.jpg

Nice angle for that photo scouserdave, can even read the poetry around the fountain.
Is that an archaelogical dig going on in the top right, seems to be taking a long time on that site.........:soon:

Bloody hell Dave, you always manage to get on top of various buildings.

Was that taken from the Beacon?

Dave's coming back as a pigeon when he leaves this life. :cheers:

Great picture once again Dave.

Anyone know what is planned for the empty site at the right (see picture) and when improvements will be made to the buildings opposite the LFC Shop.

I hope the fountain is being repaired/refurbed, anyone know??


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^^

City of Change and Challenge

http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/3472/p1020485tb5.jpg

I had an awful feeling that those health and safety ribbon of life murderers had put paid tothis fountain, after it was pulled only a week after the May opening. Glad to see its still operating.

Delighted to find the bucket fountain in full working order today. I was a bit concerned that it might not make it after taking the scaffolding pics back in August, but it looks great.
Liverpool should have more fountains, lots' of 'em.


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^^ Where is that?

Brunswick St, behind Beetham Plaza

[QUOTE=Gareth;3773815]That's were employing Park Wardens comes into play. A clip to the back of the ear would sort them out.[/QUOT

That fountain must be about 40 years old. Great idea but I have never been convinced by its location. Put it in the centre of that new public square at the end of Paradise Street with all the shoppers going past. We can always shift it when the tram gets the go-ahead.:yes: