05.00am June 1985ish.... I had woken up really early - It was just getting light. I headed out from Thames Ditton with my SLR, parked at Bushey Park gate and wandered into the park. The light was perfect, the stillness enchanting, magical.....The sound of the water from the fountain lured me into a world of fantasy, my imagination started to run riot - images of scantily clad ladies.....Then a voice shattered it all into a thousand pieces.....
"Oi
wot diya fink yaw doin'?"..........
The female figure on top of the fountain "has over her long life been known as Diana, Arethusa, Venus and even Proserpina", and recently "some younger visitors" take her for Diana, Princess of Wales. The official view is now firmly that she represents Arethusa, although the fountain continues to be known as the "Diana Fountain".
