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Where should the Splash plaque go?

4:30pm Friday 19th March 2010 in


THE Sedgemoor Splash may be no more but a precious reminder of its existence is safe and sound - and could be heading for a new home.

A plaque commemorating the visit of Diana, Princess of Wales to open the Splash on April 16, 1991, was kept when the building was demolished, and is currently held at Sedgemoor District Council's offices in King's Square.

Several people asked the Mercury what had become of the plaque and now we can reveal the council wants the public's help to decide where it goes next - one option is to hand it to Blake Museum.

WHAT do you think Sedgemoor District Council should do with the plaque? Leave your views in the comment box below.

Comments(10)

grisleyreg says...
5:07pm Fri 19 Mar 10

Somewhere McGinty and Rickards can look at it every day and remember how they have dragged this town down

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JO-JO BRIDGWATER says...
8:59pm Fri 19 Mar 10

IN THAT CASE THEY SHOULD PUT IT ON THE DOOR THAT LEADS INTO THE PLANNING MEETING ROOM THEN ALL WHO HAD A HAND IN THE DEMISE OF THE SPLASH CAN BE REMINDED OF WHAT THEY DID.

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numpty1 says...
10:22pm Fri 19 Mar 10

Lets save the council wasting time having a meeting about it and just throw it in the skip. Is it really that historic? not really

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somertel says...
12:09pm Sat 20 Mar 10

The plaque should form the centrepiece of a campaign to fix our broken and corrupt local politics. We should hold a referendum to reform local government and end the stranglehold Sedgemoor has on our town. There's not one person in Bridgwater who doesn't detest SDC for what it's done to our town; let's sweep them aside as Blake swept aside the ships of the Dutch fleet.

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frags27 says...
11:23pm Sat 20 Mar 10

Maybe Tesco's when they move in could put the sign up as you enter the store, something like 'remember what use to be here and was opened by royalty, now robbed by greed fleecing supermarket not wanted'. Or maybe hang it outside the SDC offices in Kings Square as a constant reminder of what a mistake they made. Although having said that why should the SDC office deserve the royal treatment, maybe numpty1 is right chuck it in the skip as the council don't give a stuff about the town anyway.

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Bridgwater Saint says...
9:49pm Sun 21 Mar 10

Dutch fleet??? More like Blake sweep aside the Spanish ships off Jamaica.

Anyway the looney council men and women should go out in shame for what they had done to Spalsh!

Yesterday, I went on a bus back home and saw the site of Splash now looking like a car park now.

I wonder where the material of the old Splash swimming pool had gone.

In the meantime the looney council officers joined force with others from Somerset county council to demolish the Northgate site of Pluss as I just learned of that today.

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andelain says...
10:53pm Sun 21 Mar 10

How about on Tesco's doors?

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townrunbyclowns says...
12:59am Mon 22 Mar 10

how about smashing it around the SDC, and the clown graingers head?

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sporrix says...
5:35pm Wed 24 Mar 10

In the precinct under the Mural so that all can remember how SDC destroyed the Splash!

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somertel says...
12:55pm Thu 25 Mar 10

Bridgwater Saint wrote:
Dutch fleet??? More like Blake sweep aside the Spanish ships off Jamaica. Anyway the looney council men and women should go out in shame for what they had done to Spalsh! Yesterday, I went on a bus back home and saw the site of Splash now looking like a car park now. I wonder where the material of the old Splash swimming pool had gone. In the meantime the looney council officers joined force with others from Somerset county council to demolish the Northgate site of Pluss as I just learned of that today.
Yes the Dutch fleet, I was referring to the First Anglo-Dutch War, in particular the Battles of Portland and of the Gabbard.
Getting back to the Splash, has anyone ever known SDC act as swiftly as it did in destroying our pool? You can wait 'til the cows come home for them to do what we pay them to do, but when it comes to wanton vandalism they're in there with the wrecking ball quicker than you can say "bribe".

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JESSICA Vale, of Blake Museum, with the famous Sedgemoor Splash plaque. (PHOTO: Jeff Searle) JESSICA Vale, of Blake Museum, with the famous Sedgemoor Splash plaque. (PHOTO: Jeff Searle)

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