York Watergate 'Restoration'

York Watergate was built for York House in the days when river travel was faster than land travel. 'Its surrounds were restored during the construction of Terry Farrell's Embankment Place in 1990' (Hibbert, C. et.al. The London Encyclopaedia 2011, p.1037). This is an abuse of the verb ‘to restore’. The ‘surrounds’ are gravel and three tiers of  Farrellesque, PoMo garden flowerbed. Instead, the water should be restored to create a romantic pond, perhaps with small boats in which children can be photographed in watermen’s dress. It is an opportunity for a landscape architecture project to  combine history and heritage with leisure and tourism.  The old Water Gate could become a memorial to the old Thames, before it was embanked by Sir Joseph William Bazalgette's great engineering project.

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