Blackpool Tower
Blackpool Tower is a tourist attraction in Blackpool, Lancashire, England, which was opened to the public on 14 May 1894. Inspired by the Eiffel Tower in Paris, it is tall and is the 120th tallest freestanding tower in the world. Blackpool Tower is also the common name for Tower buildings, an entertainment complex in a red-brick three-storey block comprising the tower, the ground floor aquarium and cafeteria, Tower Circus, the Tower Ballroom and roof gardens that was designated a Grade I listed building in 1973.
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The town also features heavily in the BBC television serial "Blackpool", starring David Morrissey, Sarah Parish and David Tennant and first broadcast in 2004, and the one-off follow-up "Viva Blackpool", broadcast in June 2006.