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Question: IM TRYING TO GET HOLD OF ANY OLD PICTURES OF HEMEL WITH THE ORANGE BALL THAT USED TO BE ON THE CAR PARK NEAR THE KODAK BUILDING .DO ANY OF THESE PHOTOS EXIST?
TKS
ALISON BAYLISS
Answer: Yes, there are two from our files below. Sadly, they are black and white, does anyone have a colour picture. If you have please do email it to us. Click on the link below for a self addressed email andattachyour picture as a.jpg
Interestingly, when the car park was demolished The Gazette tried to save the ball with a campaign to have it sited on the Magic Roundabout as a piece of artwork. The campaign failed and the ball, we believe went for scrap.
Update March 5: With reference to the article on the website re the orange ball, I believe the ball was the idea of Bert Ablett Chief Architect of the New Town Development Corporation who wanted something distinctive to mark that end of the town on the BP building car park. As a child I remember it being referred to as "Bert's Ball"
Update April 18
Have just come across a photo which includes the ball in colour on the old BP car park.
May be of interest to someone! Regards Derek Frost
Update February 27
Now we've had a painting of the ball!
The painting |
Dear Hemel Today,
Some of your readers might be interested in the above, a painting entitled 'Water Gardens' by my mother Sheila Jessop (a local artist) which shows the orange ball. The drawings for this painting were donewhen the multi-storey car park was going to be demolished. The oil painting was completed soon after1991/92. The painting design is based on a bird's eye view from the Kodak building.
best wishes,Dorothy Jackman
And then there's this great photo from Vivien Burgess
Picture from Vivien Burgess |
UPDATE, Friday Feb 23: Colour pictures are now starting to roll in:
These two pictures were emailedus by Paul Wileythe one below shows him as a youngster outside the demolition compound with the ball lying on the ground awaiting the scrap yard
Mr Laurie Neville, of St John's Road, Boxmoor, also called in to our offices on Friday with pictures of the ball which we are scanning and will put on the site as soon as possible.
He said: "The ball was actually orange and yellow on the theme of oranges and lemons."
To email a photo, click here
Viewed from theWaterGardens in the 1960s |
Another view |
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