Builders were working on the signage high up on Hill Dickinson Stadium on Monday while renovations were being carried out inside one of the bars opposite Everton's magnificent new ground. It would have been a predictable scene of final preparations for the first league game at the 800m venue but for an unusual sight in this part of town: holidaymakers.
"It's been brilliant to see so many people stop, stare, and realise they're literally standing on history. The water gate has always been there, just beneath people's feet, so creating a piece of art that opens up the ground felt like the perfect way to reveal something that was hidden in plain sight all along."
The Great Meadow, once submerged, is now a young forest, symbolizing an ancient landscape lost to the Soviet Union's Kakhovka dam and later revealed by the explosion of the Nova Kakhovka dam, showcasing the dual nature of ecological regeneration and potential hazards.
The local authority plans to knock down all of the buildings on the estate, currently home to 316 flats, to replace them with 326 new homes for social rent and an additional 530 new flats for sale on the private market.