Talk:The Circus (Bath)

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The central area was originally paved except for a reservoir in the centre, which supplied water to the houses. The reservoir was covered over by 1772

I'm thinking of changing this, as none of my books on Bath (and I have quite a few!) make any mention of Wood originally intending an open reservoir here. So far as I can tell, the intention was always to have a covered reservoir, and the only time it was open was during the building works. The existing wording seems to imply a deliberate change to the scheme by 1772. But that's only four years after building finished, and is anyway quite consistent with the reservoir having been completed and covered some years earlier. Can we just say there was a covered reservoir there, underneath granite setts, and that the area later became a garden?--MichaelMaggs 08:40, 11 June 2006 (UTC) Now done.--MichaelMaggs 19:23, 11 June 2006 (UTC)