City Park, Bradford
City Park is Bradford’s brilliant high-tech water feature, the largest of its kind in the UK.
City Park has many moods.
It can be a cool, tranquil and misty space, a huge, reflective watery mirror, a bubbling, squirting, popping and splashing fountain display, a brilliantly lit aqueous interactive laser artwork or a thunderous water spout, shooting over 30 metres into the air.
The Park’s computer plays 100 fountains, laser lights, mist and water effects like a maestro conducting a glorious watery symphony.
Millions of different combinations of effects can be produced.
City Park is a great place to relax, meet friends or family and enjoy a breath of fresh air.
Take a break from shopping, entertain your children or just sit, unwind and soak up City Park’s many moods.
Relax and enjoy the tree-lined City Park with a cup of tea or coffee.
Enjoy some alfresco dining in the surrounding cafes and restaurants next to elegant sculptures or savour a sandwich on one of the many park benches.
Why not make a night of it? Join friends at City Park, watch the show, then head off to one of Bradford’s many bars, restaurants and cafes.
Let City Park fire your imagination.
Snap some arty photographs, or shoot a video, pen a poem or short story. City Park is also a great place to try your hand at painting or sketching. Why not perform some street theatre or bring an instrument and play some music?
Connect with friends.
City Park, Bradford has its own Facebook page and Twitter feed @CityParkBD. Check in, post your thoughts, invite friends down and scan and tweet your latest news using #mycitypark.
City Park in numbers:
* 24,690 sq m (six acres or 2.5 hectares) – area of the park
* 600 cubic m – volume of the mirror pool
* 30m – height the central geyser fountain spray can reach
* 4,000 sq m – approximate size of the mirror pool
* 100 – total number of fountains
* 40 – number of low-power fountains for children’s enjoyment
* 20km – length of utilities redirected
* 230m – depth of the water bore hole
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