Is The Blackpool Tower built on foundations of cotton wool?
Kyle Kirlin
2025-05-09 20:00:07
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Each of the four legs of the Tower rest on concrete foundations 35 feet square and 12 feet deep. The height to the top of the flagpole is 518 feet 9 inches. The original Tower was only going to be 450 foot high. The Tower alone contains 2,493 tons of steel and 93 tons of cast iron. The building at the base contains 985 tons of steel and 259 tons of cast iron. It takes seven years to paint The Blackpool Tower structure from top to bottom. This time includes the replacement of any corroded steelwork. The Blackpool Tower is a Grade One Listed Building.
Jordon Daniel
2025-05-09 18:51:19
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The laying of the foundation stone of Blackpool Tower on Friday 25th September 1891, was a most lavish affair.
Processions and speeches were followed by ‘a sumptuous banquet’ for about 150 people, with the whole town en féte.
Amongst the many esteemed invited guests, which included 27 mayors and their ladies, was ‘The Manager of The Aquarium and Lady’, Mr and Mrs J Walmsley.
They would continue to live there as the tower was constructed around them.
The original Aquarium, Aviary and Menagerie next to the Tower in 1893.
Within Blackpool Tower the Walmsley rooms were adjacent to the menagerie and monkey house on the first floor.
Leonora Streich
2025-05-09 16:26:49
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On September 29th 1891, The Blackpool Tower’s foundation stone was laid with a time capsule buried underneath it. The Blackpool Tower is one of the most famous and easily recognised landmarks in the UK. Given The Blackpool Tower’s height, the number of surrounding buildings and the fact that it is built with 2,500 tonnes of iron and 5 million bricks, there were concerns about safety if it were to collapse. But, thanks to a unique design and some clever construction, in the unlikely event that The Blackpool Tower ever did fall down, it would fall into the sea rather than the buildings around it. The Tower is 518 feet and 9 inches tall.
Austen Hill
2025-05-09 16:11:21
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Myths about a maintenance tunnel between Blackpool Tower and the Winter Gardens, and the Tower resting on cotton bales, sometimes resurface. The council has consistently refuted the tunnel myth. The cotton bales myth originated from (Sir) John Bickerstaffe, Tower Company chairman, who jokingly stated the Tower was built on bales of cotton, referring to the numerous Lancashire cotton mill workers holidaying in Blackpool.
Barbara Larkin
2025-05-09 15:51:15
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The Tower is built on a foundation of cotton bales, to ensure flexibility in high winds.
The foundations of the Blackpool Tower, which are great blocks of concrete 40 feet square by 12 feet thick, were constructed during the winter of 1891-92.
I've always thought it was on a base as opposed to foundations.
It seems that they just laid down some very big chunks of concrete.
The Tower is built on a foundation of cotton bales, to ensure flexibility in high winds, and to ensure that in the unlikely event, Heaven forbid, that the Tower should topple, then it would land safely in the chilly waters of the Irish Sea.
I thought it was built on rock - pink spearmint.
The legs of the tower are exposed in the circus, i know because i've sat next to them.
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