Any Budding Architects?

[GhostOfDixie]

This could be something to absorb. I like the antiquity of it, but others may see the technical parts as important.

Thought I would put it out there anyway.

The "blueprints" of Monsieur Eiffel

 

[Jamo Martinez]

Are you looking for someone to design the new stadium?

 

[GhostOfDixie]

Nope, just stumbled across these blueprints by chance. Anyone interested in architecture has to be interested in the designs for the Eiffel Tower.

It was like 100 years old.

 

[davek]

Architect's drawings for Blackpool Tower here from 1895. You can see the two ideas they had for the structure side by side. The one on the right looks a bit iffy. Little wonder they went with the one on the left.

 

[GhostOfDixie]

Interesting, the one the right wasn't really a tower though, more of a kind of palace look.

 

[Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian]

i wish they had built this to look down on Msr. Eiffels one

Watkin's Tower - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

and what about this one....

 

[GhostOfDixie]

New Brighton one was huge wasn't it? Did people know that New Brighton were seen as the Chelsea of that day? They had assembled a super club, but disbanded not long after.

 

[Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian]

Interesting, the one the right wasn't really a tower though, more of a kind of palace look.

isn't that the building that sits below the tower ? with the ballroom, circus, aquarium etc.


victorian architecture is very grand, a little over the top at times but incredibly well made and designed, there aren't many buildings from those times that fall down or could be deemed carabuncles on society. the qvb building in sydney is a fantastic example of victoriana.

 

[GhostOfDixie]

isn't that the building that sits below the tower ? with the ballroom, circus, aquarium etc.


victorian architecture is very grand, a little over the top at times but incredibly well made and designed, there aren't many buildings from those times that fall down or could be deemed carabuncles on society. the qvb building in sydney is a fantastic example of victoriana.

Yeah they could build something to last then.

The house I live in is Victorian and it's fairly sturdy.

 

[Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian]

New Brighton one was huge wasn't it? Did people know that New Brighton were seen as the Chelsea of that day? They had assembled a super club, but disbanded not long after.

567 feet
New Brighton Tower - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

New Brighton Tower F.C. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

stadium that could hold 80,000, crowds of 1,000, was bully's great grandad on that job ?

http://www.merseyside.net/newbrighton/Pages/tower.htm


The Stadium
Apart from football, the stadium was used for other sporting activities and shows. There were a number of shows held on the Athletic Grounds, such as the troop of 70 Bedouins, Arabs and Dervishes in 1901 and a show was put on by the Abyssinian Warriors in 1907.
Wild West Show
The Wild West Show had a six months season in 1908, 500 men and horses took part, including many Cowboys and Cowgirls, U.S. Artillery, crack shot rifle displays, U.S. cavalry men , Cossacks, Indian warriors, chariot drivers, acrobats and contortionists. Wild highland cattle were brought from Scotland for the cowboys to lasso as American animals were not allowed into the country.
The cowboys, when not taking part in the Show, would go down to New Brighton and shoot off their guns of a night and the police had a lot of extra work on their hands. They lassoed everything you can think of, including the pretty girls! On account of the Indians going wild with 'Fire Water', public houses in New Brighton were told not to serve them with liquor. They were a colourful sight as they prowled around Victoria Road and the promenade.


so you're not wools then.... you're all injuns.