[Tealeaf]

Given the precedent of this artwork on the Commercial pub, I wonder if this building could now be Hyndburn’s answer to the fourth plinth in London’s Trafalgar Square. As most of you are probably aware, this plinth was empty for many years because the powers that be did not know whom or what to put on there. Over the last ten years or so, though, we’ve had a sailing ship in a bottle, an armless and legless pregnant woman (that was absolutely ghastly) and clowns stood on there for one hour, 24 hours a day for a year. That was fun.

With a subtle nod to the Commercials location, maybe someone could stick a barge in a bottle up on the roof. Or we could be really daring and stick a panopticon up there. Or maybe use the location as a site for an annual ‘Flash Mob’.