Sadly, by 1962 the authorities decided that it was a road hazard and had to go. Now it would have been a nice gesture for it to have been rebuilt in the memorial park. But no having cost £500 pounds to remove and it was as many people know placed on a council depot, as they described it to me when i rang the council. To the casual passerby it did resemble a tip, made up of material that would be possibly used as hardcore for road repairs.

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Bailiff Bridge school students with their completed mural that was to be placd on the canalside Walk of the new market December 11, 1990

Their choice of subject for the mural was to re-create the Bailiff Bridge fountain scene which shows all the children having probably what was to be their only ever photograph taken. 

A photograph of all that remained on the council depot which is / was situated near to the junction of Rookes Lane and Whitehall Road (A58)           I took this photograph almost 35 years ago.