Bradford's Mirror Pool: 'I control the UK's largest outdoor water feature

Meet the woman who controls the UK's largest outdoor water feature.

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00:00Tell me about your job. Well there's a team of us and we look after the fountains,

00:06the interactive mirror pole that you can see there.

00:11And what does that actually involve? Well people think we just switch a tap on and we don't.

00:17We have a club room where we control the cleanliness of the water. It's treated as a swimming pool to

00:24make it safe for everybody to go in. So that means filtering the water, chlorine like you would get in

00:30a swimming pool, testing it, we control the height, the levels of it. So in summer we can fill it,

00:37we can have the fountains higher, lower, we change all the light sequences for different events that

00:43go on and generally making sure it's a safe environment for people to come down and enjoy.

00:48Have you ever messed around with it and made it go really high or really really low?

00:53Oh yes. Well you don't like certain people in the fountains.

00:59We do it when we watch, we obviously monitor the atmosphere and if it's a nice atmosphere,

01:04yes it's great to put the fountains up because everybody loves the fountains high.

01:09Obviously it's temperature controlled as well so if it's too cold, it's windy, we have to lower them

01:14because it blows across and forms a mist. So we do mess about a little bit with it yeah.

01:20Can it be stressful? In summer when it's busy we get a bit oh how many people have we got down here?

01:28Yeah. But no, as a rule it's not. We just, all three of us absolutely love our job.

01:45So