Lost Art are making great progress with painting and assembling the fountain (see latest photo attached) and although we're still not absolutely certain, we are increasingly confident that it will be in place and ready for a street celebration on 13th May. We'll keep you updated.

Lost Art are making good progress with the painting of the fountain and although they are still not able to give us a definite delivery date, they have told us that provisionally arranging a 'Water Switch On' Celebration for Saturday, 13th May, is realistic. We will update you again as soon as we have certainty about a Celebration date, but meanwhile, please pencil 13th May into your diary. Best wishes to you all and thank you for your patience.

Yesterday Ashcourt started excavating for the foundations of the new fountain and today they've uncovered the remains of the original fountain. You can clearly see the octagonal walls of the old pool and some of the quarry tiles which lined it.

The wooden fountain has now been dismantled and removed from the roundabout and we're a bit sad about that, BUT the reason we've removed it is because our building contractors are going to start on the preparation work for the real fountain tomorrow morning. We still don't have a definite date for delivery of the fountain, but we're pushing for one and will let you know as soon as we get it. IT REALLY WON'T BE LONG NOW!

Our contractors, Ashcourt, are still waiting for permits to work on the roundabout, but once they are ready to start work, we will need to remove the wooden fountain. It’s been a great tool for attracting attention to our project and has served us very well, but we will have no further use for it when it is removed. If you, or anyone you know, has sufficient space and would be interested in having it, please contact us. The fountain is 3 metres high and just over 4 metres across at the base. It dismantles into four pieces, each 3 metres by 2 metres. We can help and supervise the dismantling and re-assembly but ideally, we would like anyone who takes it to arrange its transport. The fountain has been in place continuously since October last year and the bottom panels have suffered slightly from sustained exposure to the weather, so we recommend that anyone interested has a close look at it before expressing an interest. Best wishes to you all and thank goodness it’s cooling down!

These are the final castings for the fountain. Lost Art will be attaching their tails and fins, fixing them onto the base of the fountain and will then start the painting process. Our building contractors, Ashcourt, are still awaiting the Council permits to work on the roundabout and we're hoping that those permits will come through soon so that work on the fountain foundations can begin.

We were excited to receive this photograph of the first of our four fish for the base of the fountain. Lost Art are pleased with it (and so are we!) and have instructed the foundry to cast the remaining three. Lost Art are getting closer to being able to give us an installation date and we'll keep you posted.

Yesterday morning we met with Dominic from Lost Art and Dan from Ashcourt to discuss the order of work needed for installation of the fountain. Lost Art are continuing to make progress but some of the processes involved in the manufacture are outside their own control and they are not yet able to give us a guaranteed delivery date. Meanwhile, Ashcourt are applying for the permits they need to do their preparation work on the roundabout and they will start work on making the connections to water and electricity and pouring the concrete foundations as soon as the permits come through, even if we still don't have a definite date for delivery of the fountain. With the preparatory work done, once the fountain has been finished, it will only take one or two days to deliver and connect it. It is unavoidable that there will be some traffic disruption whilst Ashcourt are working on the roundbout but we will let everyone know more about that by hand delivered letter and by posting the details on Facebook. Lost Art are doing their best to et the fountain finished as soon as they can. We're sorry to be asking you to continue to be patient, but it's going to be so worth the wait!

Lost Art have now made the patterns for the fish tail and fins and have moved on to the patterns for the body of the fish. Once finished, they will be sent to the foundry for casting. We have been warned that the foundry is very busy at present, but Lost Art will do their best to get these final castings done as quickly as possible. Meanwhile, we are making progress with our celebratory booklet. If you are one of the many people who donated anonymously, but would like your name to appear in the list of backers in the booklet, please email us and we'll make sure you're included, as you deserve to be. Spacehive know who you are, but we don't!