what was the blackpool tower originally built for.
2007-04-16 21:33:35 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
The tower was built as a landmark to publicise and pinpoint the developing town of Blackpool as a seaside and holiday town. Opened in 1891, it was designed to copy the Eiffel Tower, built 2 years previously, and it proved successful as it quickly .became famous throughout the country.
2007-04-16 21:48:03 · answer #1 · answered by Sammy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
New Brighton Tower. each physique is conscious with regard to the Blackpool Tower, yet few people understand that Liverpool too had the same tower which substitute into infact taller. the hot Brighton Tower substitute into taller than its cousin, and a super fulfillment while first opened. It sat in sumptious gardens with a super 2000 means ballroom at its base offering perspectives of to this point as Manchester and Mount Snowdon. no longer basically like the Blackpool Tower it had a lavish gothic base, as though sat ontop of a stately domicile. It remained prevalent until worldwide conflict One, the rustic stopped partying plenty and the tower substitute into close-down quickly. regrettably for the duration of the close-down era the metalwork substitute into ignored and it have been given rusty so with the conflict over in 1919 it did no longer be appropriate for public use. confronted with a super bill for restoring it the proprietors as a replace desperate to tug it down and remember on earnings from the ballroom and gardens. The ballroom lasted as a great stay overall performance venue until fireplace gutted it interior the mid Sixties, presently after the Beatles performed there.
2016-11-25 00:30:03 · answer #2 · answered by mitts 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A laugh.... - to keep the giraffes in from Blackpool Zoo, to prove to others that men in Blackpool can get something erect - and stay there.?? So parents can see it from a distance as they are driving - and avoid the town totally!.
2007-04-16 21:37:52 · answer #3 · answered by Tiger01204 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
a tooth pick for a giant!!
LOL
Sorry i don't actually know, but as kids whenever my family went to Blackpool my Dad always said £1 goes to whoever spots the Tower first, and my brother won every time!! :D
2007-04-16 21:48:05 · answer #4 · answered by Miss Tickle 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
to copy the eifel tower
2007-04-16 21:38:03 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋