Houston / Douglas / Paris / Manchester / Venice / Newcastle upon Tyne / London / /
Company
Alhambra (Blackpool) Limited / Pavilion Company Limited / Marine Park Company / Gigantic Wheel / Southend Kursaals Limited / Debenture Corporation / Southend Kursaal Limited / Morecambe Tower Company Limited / Estates Company / Blackpool Tower Company / Samuel Allsopp & Sons / Metropolitan Tower Construction Company / Metropolitan Railway Company / Douglas Head Suspension Bridge Company / Pyramidal Syndicate Limited / Winter Gardens Limited / Douglas Head Marine Drive Company / /
Country
South Africa / United Kingdom / Wales / Isle of Man / /
Currency
GBP / /
Event
Man-Made Disaster / M&A / Business Partnership / Reorganization / Bonus Shares Issuance / Force Majeure / Bankruptcy / /
Facility
Queen's Palace / Spa Building / Gravity Canal / Grand Pavilion / Tower Company’s July / Winter Gardens Pavilion / Tower Building / Kursaal Palace / Summerland complex / Great Yarmouth Hippodrome / Indian Lounge / Eiffel Tower / Lewis’s store / Empress Ballroom / Derby Castle / Palace Ballroom / Winter Gardens complex / Palace Lido / London music hall / Wembley Tower / Blackpool Hippodrome / Hall of Laughter / Statue of Liberty / Palace complex / Tuke’s New Brighton Tower / Dome Cinema / Tower Buildings / Morecambe Tower / London-based Southend-on-Sea Tower / Tower Ballroom / Blackpool Tower / Building News / Her Majesty’s Opera House / Winter Gardens’ Empress Ballroom / New Brighton Tower / Brighton Tower / the Alhambra / Tower Circus / Tower’s Grand Pavilion / Palace Theatre / Blackpool Eiffel Tower / Scarborough Hippodrome / Lowestoft Hippodrome / /
IndustryTerm
suitable site / sea front site / promenade site / construction systems / /
NaturalFeature
Sea coast / Manbased Standard Contract / Shooting Jungle / Debenture Corporation / Irish Sea / Douglas Bay / /
Organization
Modern Movement / /
Person
George Gilbert / William J. Neatby / John Tillotson / Charles Long / Abram Kellett / Charles MacKeith / Basil Ionides / James Thoburn Cackett / Frank Matcham / George Sherrin / George Kaye / Edward Watkin / R. Burns Dick / G. H. Hunt / Oswald Wylson / Blackpool / Luna Park / C. J. Phipps / Arthur Sugden / Ralph Scott Cockrill / William Hardcastle / W. H. Cocker / William Holland / Thomas Verity / Tom Bradley / Arthur Lowcock / William Hampden Sugden / John Clarke / Joseph Paxton / Frank Tugwell / Thomas Mitchell / John Bickerstaffe / Ballroom / /
Position
architect / Prince of Wales Circus / head / local architect / entrepreneur / speculators and seaside businessmen / founder / company chairman / contractor / Member of Parliament / businessmen / designer / Prince of Wales Theatre / Mayor of Blackpool / Prince / chairman / director / Company director / general secretary / Empress / Mayor / /
The Pleasure Domes A visitor to a large north-west seaside resort in the early 1890s might have thought every method of parting trippers from their money was in action on the beaches and