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5 unusual facts about Blackpool Tower


Frack Off

Frack Off began with a campaign against the use of hydraulic fracturing, colloquially known as fracking for shale gas extraction with a banner drop from Blackpool Tower on 6 August 2011, which also launched the website www.frack-off.org.uk.

Graham Walne

His love of theatre was stimulated at an early age by attendances at Blackpool’s ornate Victorian Tower Circus where the circus ring magically filled with water, fountains and mermaids.

Pat Houlihan

He turned professional in 1971 at the age of 42 after many years as an amateur including beating future world champion John Spencer 11-3 at Blackpool Tower during the 1965 World Amateur Championship.

UKW – UK Wrestling Experience

However, events have also taken place in nearby Ossett and even in the Blackpool Tower, Blackpool.

Wade Dooley

He played for his country 55 times and was known as the "Blackpool Tower", as a result of being 6 feet 8 inches tall and a police officer with Lancashire Constabulary in Blackpool.


Black Mountain Tower

In 1989 the World Federation of Great Towers invited the tower to join such distinguished monuments as the CN Tower in Toronto, Blackpool Tower in England and the Empire State Building in New York.

Horace Finch

On 14 December 1956 a fire almost destroyed the Blackpool Tower Ballroom and during this time, Reginald Dixon took up residency at the Empress whilst Horace was demoted to the Winter Gardens Pavilion on the Hammond Organ.

Winter Gardens, Blackpool

The original building, completed in 1889, at a cost of £9,098 was designed by the prolific theatre architect Frank Matcham, who also designed the nearby Grand Theatre and the Tower Ballroom.


see also

London Dungeon

The Amsterdam Dungeon, Berlin Dungeon, The Blackpool Tower Dungeon, The Castle Dungeon at Warwick Castle, The Edinburgh Dungeon, Hamburg Dungeon, and the York Dungeon are also part of the Dungeons Group, owned by Merlin Entertainments.