Forest Hill Pools dragons

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ALIB
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Forest Hill Pools dragons

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I couldn't find the thread that alerted people to the missing dragons from FH Pools during the re-building works.
Anyway, at least one of them has returned to the roof. Assume the other will be in place shortly.
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Re: Forest Hill Pools dragons

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These are quite common and reproductions can be bought off the peg today (I researched them when I did the logo for the pools campaign). They aren't unique to the pools, but they do look good.
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i was thinking of the 'green dragon' of Sydenham when i thought to post.

I have to say , the dragons don't look like the originals. They are cleaner, but not the same.

Thanks for your input Lee
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The dragon in that picture looks the same as the one that can be seen on Google streetview (http://g.co/maps/y6anq) which even in that picture looks a different colour to the old edging tiles. However in Google the second dragon looks different (different body, larger wings) so perhaps they weren't a matching pair?
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Re: Forest Hill Pools dragons

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Here are some (rather poor) images I took before the work started.

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