Did The Blackpool Tower Circus fill with water?
Alda Schneider
2025-05-09 11:22:42
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The Blackpool Tower Circus is a Grade I listed building, and the centre of the arena can be transformed into an artificial lake, which has amazed visitors for years and is still a spectacle today. The arena takes less than a minute to fill with 42,000 gallons of water, weighing 190 metric tons and is often used in the finale. The hippodrome style stage ring is one of the only two surviving working examples of this feature today in the UK, the other being the Great Yarmouth Hippodrome. The lavish arena was originally designed by Maxwell and Turk in 1894 but was redesigned by world-renowned theatre architect Frank Matcham and completed in 1900.
Harmony Swift
2025-05-09 11:01:21
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The Tower Circus chooses to use human performers. Each era has its own clown with today's being Mooky, but previous clowns have included Doodles and Charlie Cairoli. Every show ends with a water finale from the unique hydraulic floor that sinks and fills with 42,000 gallons of water in less than a minute and has a depth of four feet and six inches.
Lillie Kiehn
2025-05-09 09:10:38
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The Circus’ famous water finale, during which the ring is filled with 42,000 gallons of water, is set to be more spectacular than ever this year. As one of only two circus water finales in the whole of the UK – the second in Great Yarmouth – this year in Blackpool will feature a very special guest appearance in the shape of a trio of smoke-breathing dragons. Our water finale is always a crowd-pleaser, but adding our three dragons will help take it to the next level and we’re excited to see people’s reactions.
Clement Weissnat
2025-05-09 08:09:02
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The sight of a circus ring filling with jets of water is still amazing, and makes you appreciate the wonder of Victorian and Edwardian audiences who sat like you within Matcham’s fantastically decorated Moorish interior that opened to the public in June 1900. The Blackpool Tower Company, registered in 1891, spent three years and £290,000 on its construction, and opened to crowds of curious visitors on 14th May 1894. Unlike the Parisian tower it was not freestanding. Its base housed The Tower Aquatic and Variety Circus featuring a hydraulically operated ring that sank to a depth of six feet and contained 42,000 gallons of water, modelled on Joseph Oller’s ring in the Nouveau Cirque that opened in Paris in 1886. The circus ring can be seen today with an aquatic circus finale with dramatic lighting. The Blackpool Tower Circus where an aquatic circus finale with dramatic lighting can be seen today has a ring that can fill with water.
Merlin Kling
2025-05-09 07:04:32
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Blackpool Circus is one of only two of its kind in the country with a famous water finale, during which the entire ring is filled with 42,000 gallons of water. And a first for Blackpool this year is an impressive laser act – all performed on water. Blackpool Tower Circus is such a special place. The arena sits within the four legs of the Tower making it a circus in the round. The 1300-capacity arena underwent a major refurbishment in 2022 which saw the intricate circus ceiling being restored to its former glory.
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