[56661] Blackpool : Tower & Golden Mile

            The Golden Mile, Promenade, Blackpool.

The Golden Mile is the name given to the stretch of Promenade between the North and South piers. It emerged in the late 19th century, when small-time amusement ride operators, fortune-tellers, phrenologists and oyster bars set up in the front gardens of boarding houses, to take advantage of passing trade near the now-demolished Blackpool Central railway station.

Blackpool Tower, 1891-94.
Architects - Maxwell & Tuke.
Engineer - William Gilbert. 
Contractors - Heenan & Froude.
The involvement of the engineer RJG Reade is disputed.
Grade l listed.

In its lower stage, the tower is surrounded by a brick-faced quadrilateral block of three unequal storeys containing principally - the Ballroom over the ground floor cafe at the north end; the Circus in the centre; and an aquarium on the ground floor (closed), with Roof Gardens (former) on the top floor of the south end.

The Tower is of open steel lattice girders with a square plan, tapering in the height from 100 feet width at the base to 30 feet width under the main gallery, which is enclosed in glass, with three open galleries above. An ogee shaped cap, topped with a flagmast terminates 518 feet above the ground.
   

Taken on: June 3, 2017

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