Whatever happened to the ornamental gates at Weston Park

[PopT 10]

Where did they go?

 

Can anyone tell us. One minute they were there and the next they were gone and I have never seen anything written about them since.

[Strix 11]

The Godfrey Sykes ones or the Mappin Art Gallery ones?

[Kthebean 10]

I think it may have been my fault.

 

I scratched my arm badly on them, I still have the scar.

 

We complained to the council.

 

Then they were gone.

 

[Strix 11]

HEY!!!! This suggests there'll be new gates

[scoop 10]

Are you referring to the bottom entrance on weston Bank? If so I seem to remember that they stolen one night, Must have been a strong burglar!

[PopT 10]

Strix

 

The ones that were next to Firth Hall.

[metalman 21]

They're the ones that got stolen. How you can just walk off with a walloping great piece of ornamental ironwork without anybody noticing beats me. Anyway they've been gone for a few years now so I reckon the chances of seeing them again are pretty much nil.

[LoopyLou 10]

This is what they used to look like

[PopT 10]

Loopy Lou

 

Thanks for the pictures they were great.

 

What a pair of beauties, sadly missed.

 

What a mystery, somebody out there must know where they are.

[algy 11]

Originally posted by metalman

They're the ones that got stolen. How you can just walk off with a walloping great piece of ornamental ironwork without anybody noticing beats me. Anyway they've been gone for a few years now so I reckon the chances of seeing them again are pretty much nil.

At the time they were stolen there was a lot of building work going on on the side of the uni building in the park, so there were lorries coming and going through and around that gateway. So turn up with a truck and lifting gear, and look as though you've every right to be there and who'll notice?

[Strix 11]

Hmmm, I wonder if they've been registered on any of the 'reclamation theft' websites they have now? (and didn't have in '93?

 

They must be hanging in front of a Chav mansion somewhere