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The amazing plan encompasses the addition of a giant slide to the royal moat of the Tower of London on which the public can slip down and arrive at a meadow full of flowers. The attraction will have four drops and people will be on mats as they slide down.
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According to the Daily Mail, “The royal moat meanwhile will become permanent, giant, undulating flower meadow right in the heart of the City of London called the ‘Superbloom.’”
People magazine reports that Tom O’Leary, Director of Public Engagement at Historic Royal Palaces, said of the attraction, “We want to give visitors to Superbloom the chance to arrive in the flowers with a sense of occasion and fun — and what better way to do that than entering the Tower of London’s moat via a huge slide?”
The moat has seen an upgrade since its use as a, “putrid open sewer and rubbish dump which occasionally overflowed into the equally pungent waters of the River Thames.”
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It was the Duke of Wellington who decided to drain it and since then is has been a green space encompassing 14,000 square meters of grass. During Victorian times cattle grazed there and in war, it was used as a rifle range among other uses. Now it is set to get a huge upgrade, one that citizens can use and enjoy.
It is not the only wildly fun attraction there. In 2014 the Historic Royal Palaces charity which runs the Tower, put in a ceramic poppy display and they have put in a popular winter ice rink.
In 2018 the area was flooded with people for the centenary of the end of the Great War to witness a huge display of 10,000 flames which were lit every night for a week.
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Now HRP have decided to go fill the moat with millions of flowers which will bloom roughly from late spring to late summer. A team of urban horticulture experts at Sheffield University were consulted to ensure that nearly 30 different species bloom in different colors at different times during the exhibition.
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