Which is older, the Blackpool Tower or the Eiffel Tower?
Randi Wisozk
2025-04-18 18:15:03
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The Blackpool Tower is one of the most famous and easily recognised landmarks in the UK. If you’ve ever wondered why The Blackpool Tower looks so familiar, it’s because it was modelled after the famous Eiffel Tower in Paris. The Mayor of Blackpool, John Bickerstaffe, attended the Great Paris Exhibition in 1889 and was so impressed by the structure that he commissioned The Blackpool Tower to be built upon his return. On September 29th 1891, The Blackpool Tower’s foundation stone was laid with a time capsule buried underneath it. The Blackpool Tower Ballroom opened in 1899 was designed by the Victorian architect Frank Matcham and it really is a tremendous sight.
Myrtice Rohan
2025-04-18 13:42:18
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The tower was to be a half-size version of the Paris tower completed two years earlier. It was to be the centrepiece of a great new entertainment centre, with an aquarium, menagerie, aviary, bear pits, Old English Village, ballroom, Tower ascents and roof gardens. The Tower was opened in 1894, and the foreign "Eiffel" was dropped from its title.
The last decade of Queen Victoria's reign saw the most dramatic perils of expansion in Blackpool's history.
The tower was named the Blackpool Eiffel Tower.
In 1891, work began on a 520-foot tower.
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