Although opened independently, the attraction was latterly owned by the operators of nearby Watermouth Castle.
He built the Wiener Riesenrad ("Vienna Giant Wheel") in Vienna in 1897, still standing in 2012, for many years the largest in the world, to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of Emperor Franz Josef I of Austria.
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His heir was thus his sister Harriet Mary Bassett, who became on 7 January 1858 the wife of Charles Henry Williams (1834–1908), MP, of Pilton House, Pilton, near Barnstaple.
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It was constructed in 1897 by the English engineer Lieutenant Walter Bassett Bassett (1864-1907), Royal Navy, son of Charles Bassett (1834-1908), MP, of Watermouth Castle, Devon.