FAMILY FUN DAY PLANNED TO MARK ROSS FOUNTAIN SWITCH-ON A family fun day is planned to celebrate the formal switch
FAMILY FUN DAY PLANNED TO MARK ROSS FOUNTAIN SWITCH-ON A family fun day is planned to celebrate the formal switch on of the Ross Fountain in West Princes Street Gardens. Entertainment will include a bouncy castle, face painters, street performers and stilt-walkers. The event, which will be free, is being staged by The Ross Development Trust on Sunday 8th July. It will have a Victorian theme linking back to the fountain’s origin and will also feature cartoonist Scot Walker who will create an art wall inviting families to help complete it. The event will be attended by Edinburgh’s Lord Provost and will be hosted by Grant Stott. It will start at noon ending at 4pm. The official ‘switch on’ will be at 1pm when a group of children will turn an oversized tap to on allowing water to flow through the fountain for the first time since 2001. Almost a year to the day that the statue was removed from the top of the Ross Fountain in Edinburgh’s West Princes Street Gardens the water is to flow through it again – for the first time since 2010. It was July 6th 2017 when the restoration process began and the water will be formally switched-on for the first time in eight years on Sunday 8th July. You are invited to attend or be represented at the event which will be attended by Edinburgh’s Lord Provost and take place at 1pm on Sunday 8th July at the Ross Fountain in West Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh. The fountain will be switched on by a group of young people and is part of a family fun day out hosted by the Ross Development Trust (12-4pm). The renovation work commissioned by The Ross Development Trust has been supported by Edinburgh World Heritage and was undertaken in collaboration with the City of Edinburgh Council. The work was undertaken by Wigan-based specialists, Lost Art. Please arrive at the gardens no later than On arrival please head to the picket fenced area at Scotts. Please note that it wi
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