SHRAPNEL'S GIANT ILLUMINATED FOUNTAIN & WATER FIREWORKS

Background

Chicken or the Egg

Basic Trees

Our Victorian Ancestors

Picture Gallery

Around the World

Notables

General Henry Shrapnel

Edward Jenner connection

James Shrapnell

William of Norton St Philip

Edward Scrope Shrapnel

Family Coat of Arms

Midway Manor

The Balloon Fiasco

Weymouth 1795

Why Scrope and Needham

Miscellaneous Items

Late in the 19^th century Philip Shrapnel and his son Leonard were the owners and patentees of a grand Illuminated Fountain which toured the North of England and Ireland. It was described as a spectacle of fairy splendour, playing to the strains of lovely music, performing feats of every colour with hundreds of jets of water. These rose and fell in concentric circles illuminated by powerful spotlights in changing and interchanging colours. The sight stirred with enthusiasm everyone who saw it.
I have copies of 24 glowing press reports from 1894 and 1895. It would be interesting to learn if anyone has any knowledge of the history of this magnificent display. Something of this magnitude must have had more than the two-years of which I have record.