Blackpool's tour de force. (Blackpool, England Festival)

History Today | June 1, 1994 | Copyright

* Paris may have its Tour Eiffel, but the sister structure that celebrates its 100th birthday this summer has carved an equally important niche in social history as Britain's most famous seaside landmark.

Blackpool Tower - copied from the French prototype but opened five years later in May 1894 - has been an icon of mass culture for over a century, its 518ft structure (containing 2,500 tons of steel, 93 tons of cast iron and 5 million bricks) serving as a backdrop for everything from the famous saucy seaside postcards of McGill to the adventures of the 1940s radio ...

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