On 6 Oct 2009, at 20:01, Julian Tether wrote: > In message <[email protected]>, Neil Arlidge > <[email protected]> writes >> Ah...so we know there are no enviromental problems > As you now know until the artfags got involved in the design it was > his > engineering baby.
Without wishing to intrude into a partly private conversation, I've got to say that what the 'artfags' have achieved at the Ouseburn is quite impressive, IMHO. Let's face it, guillotine gates are not normally the sort of thing you'd want a view of out of your front window, but these are rather elegant. In the 1980s the EA ruled that the barge lock connecting Bridgwater Dock to the River Parrett could not be restored because the mitre gates wouldn't achieve flood prevention to global warming standards. ISTR that the alternative of guillotine gates was soon dismissed as all that ironmongery looming over the listed dock structures would've given HBMC [now English Heritage] corporate apoplexy. Maybe if something sculptural had been on the cards, there might've been a better prospect of a physical connection between the Bridgwater & Taunton & the Parrett. Baz
