A view showing the late 19th century Revolving Tower in North Beach Gardens

Date:
Sep 1904
Location:
Warwick's Revolving Tower, Marine Parade North, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
Reference:
CC76/00473
Type:
Photograph (Negative)
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Description

The Revolving Tower was built by Thomas Warwick in 1897 and was the first revolving observation tower in Britain. The revolving mechanism stopped functioning after the First World War, but the tower remained until 1939, when it was demolished for scrap metal.

Content

This is part of the Series: LMS01/01 London Midland And Scottish Railway Negatives - Architectural Subjects; within the Collection: LMS01 London Midland And Scottish Railway Collection

Rights

Source: Historic England Archive

Keywords

Garden, Victorian Observation Tower