


Sponsor, if appropriate | Cumbernauld Development Corporation |
Type of object | Sculpture or other artwork |
Current situation | Unknown |
Notes | Part of Cumbernauld’s New Generation garden. Was visible for some years at Caulders Garden Centre, Cumbernauld, from M80 motorway. Since absent. |
Hi, I’m pretty sure I’ve seen this in my youth (brought up in Bearsden, born 1976) and I think it was in a garden centre or visitor centre in the central belt somewhere. It was something I’m sure I used to see several times so I think it was in the area around Glasgow. I recall seeing it once with the water not flowing and realising it was a clear plastic tube that held it up and made the water column. Not sure if that helps at all.
Pretty sure the floating tap and hand fork / trowel were sited for many years after at a Cumbernauld (westerwood) garden centre. Became Dobbie’s, then Caulder’s garden centre. Was visible from the M80
The Landmark Centre in Carrbridge has a large floating tap – might be this item.
I’m sorry to say it’s an impostor. The hunt continues…
May have been at Ripleys Believe it or Not on Great Yarmouth seafront.
Think that might have been a different tap, but will check!
Giant tap
Credit : Angela Slaven
Hi, we use to see the giant tap from either the M5 or A30 on our way to Cornwall every year. It could be seen clearly from the road. It was either in a garden centre or something like a plumbers merchants. Every year I use to shout “it’s the tap from Glasgow!” But of course my kids had no idea what I was going on about. Good luck.
Hi I am watching a video on Butlins Skegness and they have a tap just like this, though blue.
Thanks for letting us know. But that tap is a red herring, I’m afraid (as is the one at Landmark Forest Adventure Park).