Blackpool Tower is a tourist attraction in Blackpool, Lancashire, England, which was opened to the public on 14 May 1894. When it opened, Blackpool Tower was the tallest man-made structure in the Brit
Looking northeast
Blackpool Tower's first circus programme
The Tower and Illuminations
View from the top of the tower in August 2001
In the United Kingdom, a listed building is a structure of particular architectural or historical interest deserving of special protection. Such buildings are placed on one of the four statutory lists
Blackpool Tower
…entertainment complex in a red-brick three-storey block that comprises the tower, Tower Circus, the Tower Ballroom, and roof gardens, which was designated a Grade I listed building in 1973. The Blackpool Tower Company was founded by London-based Standard Contract & Debenture Corporation in 1890; it bought an aquarium, owned by…
The Forth Bridge, designed by Sir Benjamin Baker and Sir John Fowler, which opened in 1890, and is now owned by Network Rail, is designated as a Category A listed building by Historic Environment Scotland.
WWII bomb damage advanced the move to preserve architecturally significant buildings such as St Paul's Cathedral which was listed Grade I in 1950.
100 King Street, Manchester, built in 1935 and formerly the Midland Bank, was listed Grade II* in 1974.
The redundant Holy Trinity Church in Wensley, North Yorkshire, is listed Grade I. Much of the current structure was built in the 14th and 15th centuries.