Exploring The Lost Tower of New Brighton | What Remains?

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Join me for a look at the New Brighton Tower, the other famous tower in the U.K.
Taller than the Blackpool Tower, and built by the same designers. This Tower stood at the tip of the Wirral, overlooking Liverpool. It opened in 1900 and closed in 1919.
Join me for a look into the history of New Brighton Tower and a full explore of the site today, looking for any remains.
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@groundhoglife Год назад

I live on the Wirral and remember new Brighton in its glory days. The late 60’s and early 70’s as a child it was amazing. My older brothers used to take me there most weekends. Victoria road was full of arcades and the front was so busy with different attractions. Now it’s just shops and overpriced coffee bars, the council should have put more effort into keeping this alive.

@iliketowatchvideos47 Год назад

Wow, new brighton is alot better than the 90,s when it was a ghost town ,its a great place now,have u been to Victoria Road lately? I'm thinking not ,its fab full of restaurants and bars

@XrpCookies Год назад

@@iliketowatchvideos47 hes just stating that it was better in the 60s and 70s which it was.

@groundhoglife Год назад

@@iliketowatchvideos47 Yes I have and it’s nowhere near as good as it was back in the day.

@groundhoglife Год назад

@@XrpCookies Yep it was 😆

@john111257 Год назад

@@XrpCookies everywhere was

@elizabethclayton2587 Год назад

This was great,I'm from Birkenhead forever... Way before I was born my mum and dad had split up but heard my mum was in tower ball room he said it was so busy that he couldn't see find my mum until a light shined on metal which was on her stiletto heal which he was told mum was wearing anyway they were married 60 years... There has always been skullduggery with buildings and land around the beautiful Wirral! Same thing going on to this day! Your very good thanks so much! I'm Dyslexic hope you understand this ...👍👍

@realityisjustadream1715 Год назад

I live in Wallasey, I wish that the Tower Ballroom was rebuilt and the fair plus the open air swimming pool. It would make New Brighton extremely popular place for Visitors. But the Council are so short sighted too realise the potential.

@suzyqualcast6269 Год назад

They'd rather a Moggys, from what I've heard.... And I remember the Golden Goose, if not the Tower and its environs, as me Dad did.

@therespectedlex9794 Год назад

@@suzyqualcast6269 What's a Moggys?

@iliketowatchvideos47 Год назад

Rebuild it?no silly idea ,if it was still there it woukd have historical interest but a new 1 would look poo

@wilfridwibblesworth2613 Год назад

@@iliketowatchvideos47 Not if is build in the same way as before but of course that will never happen.

@wilmerrose Год назад

They're not short sighted they just don't give a shit

@ecc84 Год назад

It always amazes me how many old building mysteriously burn down when the land is wanted for housing.

@Slate56 Год назад

Wow! Amazing video, very well done! As kids in Liverpool, It was quite an adventure to get the ferry from the Pier Head over to New Brighton. After looking for crabs in the beach rock pools and messing about on Fort Perch Rock, our little gang would head for the fair. Parts of the main lower ballroom building were still there but it was all derelict, as was the fair. Just inside the ballroom building, there was an old waxworks behind a big wooden gate that we could just squeeze through. Very dark, no lights, but you could just make out the figures from the daylight filtering through the gate. Of course someone had to shout, "THAT ONE MOVED!!!", mad rush, and we all clambered out screaming. Then we thought it would be a good idea to walk around the big dipper! 🤔😲 The wood really was rotten and falling apart. Only one of us fell through though, on the top curve as you were about to go down the first main drop, but we managed to drag him up. No health & safety in them days 😄 Time for a strawberry Mivvy lollyice (6/d), and back on the ferry. New Brighton was great back then ☺

@jusele-ox9rc 3 месяца назад

Mivvys long forgotten 👌 Seacombe lad....🇬🇧

@michaelcarr304 Год назад

Thanks for this - I'm Wirral born and bred. I was just thinking of the Tower the other day. Very few people I speak to know the Tower was ever there... Your efforts help keep our local history alive 👍🙂

@markdouglas2035 Год назад

So sad we’ve had architectural elegance all over our country…… all nearly destroyed and replaced with modern blandness 😢

@ChrisGraeme Год назад

Thanks for this. I grew up in Wallasey and good to see New Brighton given some recognition

@AdventureMe Год назад

Thanks Chris

@jasonuk8333 Год назад

The Tower Athletic Ground actually hosted two football league clubs. New Brighton Tower FC were the first who were league members for three seasons (1898-1901) after which they went out of business. New Brighton FC were in the football league from 1923 to 1951, although only moved into the Tower Athletic Ground in 1946 (due to bomb damage at their previous ground) when it was renovated and a new stand built. Nice video, as always, with some great photos. Fascinating one showing the base of the tower as the building was being demolished.

@suethomas1489 Год назад

This is a very interesting (and sad) article of when New Brighton was a top class resort. It shows where everything was on the land that is left today. My Mum and Dad met at the tower ballroom, it is now a football pitch. So sad to see this amazing building, boating lake, gardens, funfair, cafes, piers all gone without trace because the council wouldn’t preserve everything, the outcome was loss of revenue and the decline of New Brighton. I hope it will rise up again, Victoria Road is looking amazing at the moment, let’s hope New Brighton will continue to prosper and have a huge regeneration! 🤗

@lynneleverton8825 Год назад

My Mum and Dad met at the Tower Ballroom too!

@marko8775 Год назад

New Brighton is a shell of what it used to be. Just shops and luxury flats that very few people can afford. Sad really.

@griffog2001 Год назад

Fascinating, what a shame this has gone :(

@davidwaddington9414 Год назад

Excellent work, I remember it well but after the tower was removed.

@xr6lad Год назад

How could they pull that down…..

@anthonyphilips7171 Год назад

Very interesting video. New Brighton in the 1960s was still a good place for a day out in the summer school holidays and at weekends and Bank Holidays. The ferries from Liverpool to New Brighton were always packed, so what we young lads in our early teens decided to do was take our bikes on the ferry to Seacombe and then cycle along the promenade to New Brighton, the Seacombe ferry being a few pence cheaper which gave us more money to spend at the fair. If my memory serves me correctly, there was a miniature railway running next to the promenade on the other side of the fence (at 16:38) but I suppose I could be misremembering this and it could have been a continuation of the roller coaster track. In the late 1960s, I worked in one of the few tall buildings in Liverpool city centre which over-looked the Mersey at that time and I recall watching the tower fire from that distance. I believe by that time, the building's use had been relegated to a warehouse and it was speculated that the fire was a fraudulent insurance claim .... allegedly.

@henryb160 Год назад

Yes, I remember queuing for the ferry from Liverpool to New Brighton on Summer days in the 60s. You could hardly move for people. There were many thousands waiting to cross.

@caroljones151 10 месяцев назад

The miniature railway was definitely there running through a grotto type wooded area. I went on that myself as a child in the 1960s, think it was run by Tommy Mann.

@rydermike33 Год назад

Very many thanks. A great video. I have happy memories of visiting New Brighton as a child with Mum and Dad. I always loved the miniature railway that ran along by the prom and through a tunnel before returning to the fun faire. Wonderful.

@zippyisking Год назад

Excellent vlog Darren. Such a shame it has all gone. The tower looked excellent 👍

@windsorSJ Год назад

My first roller coaster ride was at New Brighton. I was about 6yrs old and I was so scared but I loved it afterwards. There was only a bar to hang onto, no safety belts. I remember fondly the fun fair it was a real treat and so exciting for a young kid.

@carlarthur4442 Год назад

Rambert that rickety wooden coaster , I went on it regularly, loved it , I rember the little Railway train on the front by Egremont, used to be 1, 1/6 to go on it little steam train . 🚂

@jetsons101 Год назад

They should have saved the Rollercoaster.... The "birds eye view" fade at 18:26 was great along with you drone footage pinning the location names was spot on, it pulled the story together. Thanks for this historical piece of art..... NOTE: If I ever win the "Lotto" I would ride every rollercoaster in the world. lol

@keithsmith8512 Год назад

Alot of history on the Wirral.Not much left of tower grounds when i was a kid .Spent most of my time at New Brighton baths,largest in uk .

@suzyqualcast6269 Год назад

We used to visit Guinea Gap baths, just out of Wallasey, filled with Mersey water 💦

@anthonyphilips7171 Год назад

@@suzyqualcast6269 I remember some time in the late 1980s, one of the few television channels, possibly Channel 4, decided to make a music programme on Merseyside. It was recorded over a few days and featured a wide variety of popular music from the time. I personally watched it for Status Quo playing on a temporary stage on the water inside the Albert Dock, but I recall that The Weather Girls (It's Raining Man was their current chart single) played in a public swimming baths on the Wirral on a temporary transparent stage erected over the water. Being sizable ladies, they expressed some concern that the they could see the water beneath them and would the stage hold. Could this have been in Guinea Gap baths?

@porly33 Год назад

@@anthonyphilips7171 I think you must be referring to "New Brighton Rock", which was a music festival held at New Brighton Baths, an open-air swimming pool, in 1984. I attended one of the shows and remember seeing Frankie Goes to Hollywood play. Pretty sure there's some old footage of it here on YT. The baths became "uneconomical to repair" after heavy storm damage in, I think, 1991. The site now features a large Morrisons and other retail outlets. Guinea Gap is an indoor pool in the vicinity of Wallasey Town Hall, a couple of miles away from New Brighton.

@anthonyphilips7171 Год назад

@@porly33 Thank you. You are almost certainly correct as to the location but they must have held several music events there over the years as the televised show I saw had the Weather Girls at New Brighton and Status Quo at the Albert Dock. Quo performed (mimed to) Red Sky which was not released as a single until July 1986. I recorded it on VHS and it is available on RU-vid. Also the Weather Girls at New Brighton is there - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-C7VZbZkDtic.html

@jusele-ox9rc 3 месяца назад

@@anthonyphilips7171went myself👌seacombe lad oldershaw pupil. Left 38 years ago Memories 👍🏻🍺

@matthewgriffiths8423 Год назад

Echoes of the past. Fascinating

@eliz9369 Год назад

Fantastic film. Another reminder of what we have lost😢. It looked like people were having so much fun. The fades are amazing. Thank you for this fabulous video Darren.

@lynneleverton8825 Год назад

My Mum and Dad met in the Tower Ballroom in New Brighton. I remember my Mum saying about the figure eight roller coaster too.

@ianhalsall-fox Год назад

This is sadder than Raikes Hall, not to mention other Victorian / Edwardian places of leisure and entertainment such as White City in Manchester and indeed Crystal Palace.

@RobinHullBuilds Год назад

Hey Darren As a southerner my knowledge of anything further north than Watford is appalling. Your videos are always fascinating and educating. I adore your narration and camera work, interspersed with your wonderful photo fades. Great job mate. Brilliant!

@the_bunse Год назад

The photo fades really help me picture what was there in a modern context thank you. Sometimes it is hard to stay positive when you see how much we have lost to be replaced with endless concrete.

@littlemissy2883 Год назад

You mean there is life south of Watford

@RobinHullBuilds Год назад

@@littlemissy2883 yes, there is. But, it’s all twisted and horrid ☹️

@wilmerrose Год назад

Come visit anytime, lots to see and affordable, unlike most places down south

@kennethtarran1525 Год назад

Another excellent video Darren. I was born in 1943 and live in North Wales. As a child we often visited New Brighton for a day trip. It was a full blown seaside resort then. I can clearly remember going to the fair in the tower grounds. The demise of the Mersey Ferries calling at New Brighton was the main reason the resort went into a rapid decline. There was a major lido at New Brighton too and attracted large numbers of visitors in the summer seasons. Once again, I applaud your research and the way you superimpose historical photos on current views of various sites. Superb work Darren! Your next project is always eagerly anticipated. PS Rhyl and its iconic Pavilion was always a regular resort for us to visit as children. Perhaps you could consider a project there at some point? Again many thanks and very well done!👏

@Imfat8888 Год назад

loved New brighton growing up in the 70's and Rhyl,,, the Wirral had three Lidos New Brighton, Hoylake and New Ferry,, used to go to all three.

@henryb160 Год назад

@@Imfat8888 You forgot Harrison Drive.

@Imfat8888 Год назад

@@henryb160 can not believe i missed that out,,

@davidrobinson6642 Год назад

I used to work in the tower and the funfair .there was two small zoo's that i looked after one in the open air and the other in the caves behind the tower building, I also worked on the chairlift and the live wrestling shows in the tower. Happy days.

@shaunwest3612 Год назад

Great video, very interesting,a shame that their is nothing left 👍👌😀

@joegall7591 Год назад

Excellent video.The photo fades really bring all the videos on the channel to life.

@jeffallinson8089 Год назад

What an utter travesty. This incredible structure should have been saved and would have done wonders for the area's tourism today. A classic example of short sightedness all too common in the UK. I had no idea that that astonishing tower and the amazing, beautiful building surrounding it even existed. Thanks for this fabulous video and history lesson. I loved it, but it made me sad and angry too!!

@AdventureMe Год назад

Thanks Jeff

@stephencollier453 Год назад

Well done Darren for producing such a great video. What New Brighton really needs is a replacement for the pier that was demolished several decades ago. Also the re-introduction of the ferry service that used pull into that pier many years ago. As a child it used to fill me with awe, watching that wonderful fun fair coming into view. The reconstruction of that tower ? Well, wouldn't that be a dream.....

@AdventureMe Год назад

Yes that would be ideal for NB

@hollimurray8856 Год назад

Brilliant video how different it looks now is just amazing. Can you imagine the amount of money all that could of brought in? But hey ho eh? Everytime I read that a fire was "unknown" it makes you think that it was done on purpose so they would have to demloish it.

@MrGazawilliams Год назад

Hi there was also a miniature railway which run also run just behind the railing which was also run by Tommy man's the grounds also had a banked race track and held a few championships great loss only got to go there few times as I was born in 1963 maybe a part 2 on towergrouds ?

@suzyqualcast6269 Год назад

Nice to see someone else paying respect to a massive tower, gone before I was 'aware' but known by my Dad and family, , who were from Wallasey. I DO remember the slotties at the Golden Goose in the 60's however... Then later, when I took my children out to Perch Rock, (zG. Goose having vanished to become a go kart track that they were to short to go on). Nice One fella ! 😉, and thank you.

@paulcardin6344 Год назад

"Destroyed by a large fire, the cause of which was unknown". That's the kind of announcement we OFTEN hear on Wirral...! See the piers, bathing pools, art schools, et al.

@AdventureMe Год назад

And here in Yorkshire too

@WolfmanWoody Год назад

We used to go to New Brighton quite a lot and catch the ferry 'cross the Mersey or just go on a cruise around on The Royal Iris. Last time I went was probably 1962 or 63 and I remember that cable cars taking us up to the roof of the building. That's about all I can remember of New Brighton. Nice video though, well done.

@Urbexy Год назад

I had no idea this tower even existed. You did a great job merging the old and new photos to show how the area has changed. With victorian structures, they never seemed to be very good at demolishing them. Usually, you can find recognisable remains. In this case, they seem to have done a great job of removing everything. crazy that something so grand can just vanish. Very well put together video.

@AdventureMe Год назад

Thanks mate

@dh2032 7 месяцев назад

me too, and beetle played there, that would been enough save it being demolish today? am wonder are any historical blue places marker to that? (don't think the council world approve look how Liverpool over the mersey milks it everyday?

@douglasthompson296 Год назад

Hi Darren, sad, sad state of affairs that it's all completely disappeared. I honestly never knew there had been a tower complex there. My involvement with Merseyside began in 1980's and only the lido and some entertainment venues existed. Work colleagues/neighbors never spoke about the old days there. Fort Perch Rock, the Napoleonic war fort jutting out into the Mersey was accessible to invited groups only as it was in private ownership then. There is/was an aviary built into the wall of the cafe in Sefton Park (Liverpool). Oh happy days. Cheers DougT

@suzyqualcast6269 Год назад

Sefton Park, eh.... Was born there, 58, in the hospital, then slid away into a filing cabinet , from where I was later lifted n adopted.

@douglasthompson296 Год назад

@@suzyqualcast6269 Nice one Suzy, Cheers DougT

@cchance1973 Год назад

A really interesting video to watch. Maybe if the tower had survived New Brighton could have overtaken Blackpool as the number 1 seaside resort of the North west, shame that we will never know.

@iliketowatchvideos47 Год назад

Glad it's not like Blackpool tbh what a shithole that is 🤣

@sonarfreq Год назад

I remember experiencing it all as a small child, sadly only two or three times before it burnt down, but it was a magical place and I will always remember the excitement I experienced walking up the hill to those large yellow entrance gates! Thank you for the memories!

@frankmcginley Год назад

Great video. Many thanks. Brought back memories for me from the 60s. My auntie's family lived just up the hill, and we went there for a holiday weekend - even though we only lived up the road in Birkenhead, it felt like a million miles away. I distinctly remember being addicted to the "hook a duck" in the fairground. Wonderful times.

@goldkhw Год назад

My Grandfather took me one cloudy afternoon in the very early 50's. I could do whatever I wanted. I went on one ride, round and round. But then I discovered the fishing for ducks thing. That's all I did, lugging presents for everyone as we walked along the prom to get home. I asked my grandfather how much we had spent and he said "a pound." Now, that included candy-floss and whatever treats I had had. Age 5 and those ducks just kept dragging me back because I had to get presents for everyone. My Dad took me there around the same time just to go to the zoo and to see an elephant. He put a peanut on my palm and instructed me to put my arm straight out. The elephant took his peanut treat. I didn't flinch. Great place. I was forbidden to ever go there on my own. But I'd wander along the prom and not tell a soul where I had been. Penniless, but enjoying every minute.

@markosmith8037 Год назад

Brilliant work. This brings the old tower and surrounding area to life (briefly!). The attention to details, enthusiasm and presentation is first class. Well done and thanks

@AdventureMe Год назад

Thanks mate

@mozbizkit Год назад

I grew up in New Bo. Great place and great people. I travelled the UK and no better place than the Wirral.

@AdventureMe Год назад

Thanks for watching

@barryrathbone Год назад

I remember as a 6-7 year old seeing a burnt out building which I presume was the tower building. The glory days of New Brighton. I remember going to the stock car racing by there

@davidholmes2283 Год назад

Fascinating. I knew about it and I'm glad you have done this and filled in a lot of detail. Well done!

@andrewcawood1364 Год назад

Never heard of this before and so pleased i know about this now. Would loved for this to have still been around today. Many thanks for sharing.

@williamcorry Год назад

Ted Corry, Thanks Darren for the memories. I was in the Fire Service 1962 to 1969 and was on duty when there were 2 major incidents of fire at the Tower. If you have a look at photos of those fires I am the fireman on top of the Turntable ladder on the left operating from the top car park the operator was the late jack Clements. The TTL on the right was from Birkenhead. I still have photos of that fire and the Newspaper cuttings. I also attended a fire in the Love boat ride at the base of the tower and was trying to chip a hole in the wall of the waterfall when that part collapsed. Travelled to the ground on a piece of concrete unharmed but lost my axe which was never seen again. I emigrated to New Zealand in September 1969 to serve in the Fire service in Dunedin fore 28 Years.

@AdventureMe Год назад

Thanks for the memories William. I wonder if the Axe is still there somewhere buried.

@layneinchains848 Год назад

Glad you've highlighted this. I live on Victoria Road which is right opposite where the pier used to be. So sad that both the pier, tower and outdoor baths are all gone.

@AdventureMe Год назад

Yeah such a sad state now from what it once was.

@lilylilylilylol Год назад

i’ve been told about this, growing up on the wirral. but funnily enough, not by my nan who lives on the wirral, but my grandparents from cumbria, who came for frequent visits as children 😂

@AdventureMe Год назад

Thanks for watching

@sarahillingworth2718 Год назад

Like the drone camera views 👍

@johnakyle5908 Год назад

Very Interesting. I’d not heard of that attraction before. I’ve spent a bit of time on the south Wirral but that’s all. Amazing how some areas change so quickly and ancient ruins can be around for millennia

@raywilliams2737 29 дней назад

Those were the times when everyone would holiday in the UK instead of travelling to warmer places. So many of those UK resorts have been in decline since air travel became the norm. The world has turned and they will never be revived. Thanks for bringing back a few memories. As 8 year old kids we walked from Birkenhead library to New Brighton following the yellow bus route over the four bridges at the docks and on to the fairground where we were ripped off by one of the booths "Win any prize you want". "off the bottom shelf"

@Marciawren Год назад

My Grandparents used to go dancing in the Ballroom.. They spent many happy times there.. Thanks for the excellent info! really beautifully done!

@vikkiruss Год назад

What an amazing video, I accidentally found the tower while looking at old maps and got my hopes up that it might still be there when I read that the tower had gone and the building remained and then was heartbroken to find it had all gone, thank you for finding such amazing old photos and bringing it to life.

@AdventureMe Год назад

Thanks for watching

@burntphoenix3192 Год назад

amazing video you should do Eastham woods and Eastham ferry there used to be a zoo etc there still remains a bear pit from the zoo inside the woods

@henryb160 Год назад

Yes. There was direct competition between NB and Eastham as to which was to be the resort on the Mersey. Eventually New Brighton won out, and the rest is history. In fact it's all history now!

@kelvinallen2624 Год назад

And I thought Scarborough was bad for loosing buildings and attractions New Brighton has lost everything. Sad really and this is a well put together documentary about it.

@AdventureMe Год назад

Yes it has. Pier, tower, pleasure gardens, funfair, ferry stop, lido, theatre and all sorts.

@iliketowatchvideos47 Год назад

Live in West kirby but brought up in wallasey ,really love new brighton,very very good video

@urbexscotland6313 Год назад

Brilliant video. Keep them coming 👍

@AdventureMe Год назад

Thanks mate

@a11csc Год назад

a very interesting what could have been darren

@discodiva8879 Год назад

I'm from the Midlands, just returned from our first visit to New Brighton. Loved this video, such a pity it's all gone now.

@AdventureMe Год назад

Thanks

@twelveightyone Год назад

Amazing Darren. I walked past the site of this tower today during a lovely walk and never even knew this existed! Keep it up!

@uingaeoc3905 Год назад

What is not appreciated enough is that the Tower Concert Hall played a significant contribution in promoting new Classical Music in the first decades and half of the 20th Century. This was due to the first Music Director-Conductor (Sir) Granville Bantock who realised that as his orchestra was paid from the general takings at the entrance he could be adventurous in his programming. He therefore introduced the first performances in the UK of major European composers who were grateful to him. Most notably Richard Strauss and Jean Sibelius who actually dedicated his Third Symphony to him. Bantock also introduced his own major compositions and those of other British composers too. For this he repalced Elgar at the Birmingham Conservatoire.

@Alans6563 Год назад

Wow what an interesting video. Thank you for taking the time to make this.

@MrAarongilbey Год назад

Great work again Darren! I spent a time in the Wirral in the mid to late 2000s in Bebington but had no idea that the tower, buildings and attractions ever existed!

@sean65xjrurwin61 Год назад

Absolutely fascinating Darren, you excelled again mate. I just love stuff like you do on your channel. I could watch and get nothing else done !!! See you when you're here ( in Blackpool ) Fantastic, what a privilege it is to live in a country with so much brilliant and inspiring history...

@inconsolablegraphite2126 Год назад

i’m an exiled scouser and used to visit New Brighton regularly with my dad in the 60s and 70s. I’ve lots of good memories of going over on the ferry and the funfair. I still make a point of going there whenever I’m in Liverpool. It’s changed a great deal and the tower area is almost unrecognisable, but I’ve still got a soft spot for it. One of my (now very old) aunts used to go dancing at the Tower Ballroom in the 1940s and my mum and dad used to go over when they were going out in the early 50s. I recall the fire well and New Brighton seemed to go into a rather sad and slow decline afterwards. Someone else might have mentioned it, but there was also a miniature railway at promenade level which ran from the funfair south easterly in the Seacombe direction, initially between the roller coaster and the promenade and then looped back on itself in a cutting. The remains of the cutting may still be there. Great video. Thanks for doing it.

@AdventureMe Год назад

Thanks mate. Yeah theres more than I covered. Might need a part 2 one day.

@garybanks2339 Год назад

Brilliant video Darren. I saw the fire engines and heavy smoke filled the tower building. It was a short ferry trip from Liverpool, but on old pier has sadly gone. Many thanks

@caroljones151 10 месяцев назад

I grew up in Wallasey and as a child in the 1960s New Brighton had everything, there were two swimming pools, the big art deco swimming pool and a bit further along another outdoor pool.

@jusele-ox9rc 3 месяца назад

The derby pool in the sand dunes

@shirleylynch7529 Год назад

How sad. Never heard of this place before. What a brilliant video. Well done. So good to keep history alive Darren. Thank you

@simonsays335 Год назад

New Brighton had lots back in the day, I didn't know it had a pier as well as a Tower I did visit a few months back it was brilliant, there were loads market stalls all set up along the from and a really good atmosphere but the stuff you have shown it used to have is amazing, maybe one day some of it will come back, who knows....

@henryb160 Год назад

The pier was still there in the 60s and I used to swim under it.

@citled Год назад

Excellent video. Love gems like this. You also present them in such an insteresting way. Still loving the fade in/out of then and now pics. Brilliant work, more on this sort of theme would be great!

@simonbradshaw3708 Год назад

That was such an interesting history lesson you have given today, I really enjoyed it. I knew other towers similar to Blackpool were planned, but I didn't know any had been constructed. Such a shame it's demise as it could today have been one of the go to destinations for the North West. I look forward to your next video.

@sitcorocket Год назад

No connection to Liverpool or New Brighton but bloody hell what a superb video. Absolute shame on so many fronts, it would be like showing today's youngsters an abandoned and demolished Alton Towers in a hundred years time...gone forever...bit like Morecambe fair and Southport pleasure land n zoo...great stuff..keep it up.❤️

@AdventureMe Год назад

Thanks Ian. More to come

@GaryThomas-gx2jm 5 месяцев назад

Brilliant video. So many people dont even know about new brightons tower. The victorians certainly knew how to build.

@kmr8642 Год назад

This is brilliant. Thanks so much for creating this, it’s hauntingly beautiful 🙏

@bigl447 Год назад

Great video I remember the tower grounds from the 60,s as a youngster and even when I visit it these days I still try to visualise how it looked back then 👍

@mickd6942 Год назад

Fascinating stuff , I'd never heard of it

@oddsandwindsocks5905 Год назад

Hi Darren, what a shame that nothing is left of the beautiful area, that tower must of been amazing to see up close.

@joemaciver3564 Год назад

ive lived on the wirral all my life, and never knew of this, thanks for the video and keep it up 😁

@dood1954 10 месяцев назад

spent many days with family and fiends in the 60s and 70s here. great memories!! thanks.

@paulbeesley5743 Год назад

Great video and research, I use to visit here a lot in the 1970s to swim in the open-air baths. I still go today but it's totally different. Sad really.

@webrarian Год назад

Yet another excellent and fascinating video. One reason the Tower isn't entirely forgotten is the that conductor and composer Granville Bantock (1868 - 1946) was musical director there from its opening until September 1900. He used the concerts to perform some of his own compositions and also promoted other British composers of the period. So it's great to put that work into context at last.

@AdventureMe Год назад

Thanks 👍

@paulharvey9149 Год назад

Thank-you, Darren, that's very interesting. It's not a part of the world I really know, though I was aware a tower did once exist there. I wonder how much it would have rivalled Blackpool as the premier resort of the North-west had it survived into the mid-20th Century?

@hyperballadbradx6486 Год назад

Bonkers place, and I never knew it even existed since a few weeks ago. And I call myself a Lancastrian! I really want to go for an explore!!

@juliemercer1458 Год назад

I live on the Wirral too, walking along the Prom there is a regular thing for me on my days off....the dock where the red cranes are in your video is where I work. My mum use to tell me of her days as a teenager growing up there and her dancing days in the Tower Ballroom during WW2.

@AdventureMe Год назад

An amazing place.

@bullet2daheadx Год назад

I was born in Wallasey and as a child spent many years walking around the area heard my mum an gran talking about the tower a few times wasn't till I saw the video it reminded me it does hold a lot of history for most of my family are from Wallasey and went to new Brighton a lot my mum was a folk singer she played in the pubs when she was younger they met at the golden Guinea on new Brighton front dancing till the wee hours on the weekend ( I think my mum worked there as well)it was love at first sight apparently my mum was hairdresser and my dad was a charted surveyor he left and went on to advertising working In Liverpool my mum used to met him off the ferry when she finished work and drive him home in little hillman imp were ever we moved too we always came back we had too we still sent the dentist there and my gran and granddad lived in Wallasey till they both were semi retired and went to I've in Moreton it's a place I will never forget and somewhere that I loved as a young kid I miss it as now most of the family that I spent time with there are gone now but I still have so many great memories

@AdventureMe Год назад

Good memories. Thanks for sharing

@martinmarsola6477 Год назад

Thank you for your extensive research and filming of this incredible video. Your the best. Cheers Darren!

@eclipseflooringdaz1656 Год назад

Amazing video. It's great the way you merge the old pictures into the exact spot today. Lots of great information. Lived here all my life but born after the ballroom fire.

@goldkhw Год назад

That was an excellent video. I didn't know EVERYTHING had been removed. I used to go into the upper portion of the tower building and it was carpeted and there were various rooms with machines lining the walls. I wish I could remember those machines more clearly. They were inexpensive and you'd put your penny in and look into the special eye- holes. Not many people were ever in those rooms. But it was quite "posh" with the thick carpeting. I particularly remember that.

@petechamberstimedrive6967 Год назад

Fascinating stuff, thanks so much for doing this.

@Heretic44 Год назад

great video, such a shame it wasn't still here today must've been epic for the few that got to use the tower... can only imagine !!

@Ian-gw2vx Год назад

Excellent! Really been looking forward to this one and you have delivered. Next time I go back I might take my metal detector and see what I can find.

@AdventureMe Год назад

Let me know if you find anything

@leeandjude Год назад

And they call this progress? I never even knew this existed. Thanks again Darren for an excellent video

@AdventureMe Год назад

Thanks mate

@stevenhoughton1406 Год назад

Wow fantastic video I have never heard of this tower what a shame it doesn't exist anymore

@damedavidfrith55 Год назад

Thanks for another cracking vlog very interesting 🧐

@petecotton2801 Год назад

Really enjoyed that history of a landmark of had never even heard of until about 2 weeks ago, I love Liverpool and the surrounding areas, Its one of my favourite Cities . The photo fades and map overlays really are spot on and amazing. I had to laugh halfway through the video though as Take That came on the radio singing "A million love songs" lol

@kieransherlock3902 Год назад

I'm from the Wirral, I always knew about the tower but it was really interesting learning more details about it. My Nan and Grandad met at the New Brighton open air swimming pool and used to dance at the tower. Great Video, thanks for sharing it!

@AdventureMe Год назад

Thanks Kieran

@dubbadude Год назад

Brilliant video of a tower I knew nothing about. Sad that the whole project is no longer available for locals to enjoy. I’ve subscribed to further enjoy your work Darren, clearly a gifted and informative fellow. Best Wishes to you.

@AdventureMe Год назад

Thanks David. Welcome aboard