To coincide with the online publication of “Living and Working in the UK”– a non fiction title about living in the UK and working in the UK – webooks.co.uk has prepared a guide to some of the landmarks in Britain you wouldn’t normally visit.
Tourists visiting landmarks in Britain normally do so via London - Big Ben, the London Eye and Tower Bridge, to name a few. But surely there are more landmarks in Britain than the standard list most tourists adhere to?
Rotunda (Birmingham)
Built as part of James A. Roberts design for the Bull Ring Shopping Centre, the Rotunda is a Grade II listed cylindrical highrise building built in 1965. Much of the press coverage received for the Rotunda are for the wrong reasons. Derided by sections of Birmingham, it was suggested that it should be demolished in the 1980s.
Since then the building has undergone refurbishment and now houses 232 luxury apartments, 14 on each floor. James A. Roberts has since claimed that the building had originally intended to look like a candle.
Trinity Centre Multi-Storey Car Park (Gateshead)
The Trinity Centre car park’s conception in 1962 occurred during the peak of Brutalist architecture, however, by the time is was built in 1969, interest in this design style had declined.
The car park has seven tiers or parking levels with the decks on the north face having a slight curve to create a wave effect.
Tesco bought the site of the car park in the late 1990s and plans to demolish it by the end of 2008. There are tours currently taking place.
The Transporter Bridge (Middlesborough)
The Middlesbrough Transporter Bridge is a Grade II listed building, which is the furthest downstream bridge across the River Tees. It connects Middlesbrough on the south bank to Port Clarence on the north bank and has a cart which can carry passengers across the river in 90 seconds.
The Crystal Palace Tower
Also known as London’s Eiffel Tower, the Crystal Palace transmitting station is the second-tallest structure in London and is best known as the main television transmitter for the London area. The station was built in the mid 1950s among the ruins of the Crystal Palace.
The station carries the London regions of BBC One, BBC Two, ITV1 and Channel 4 in analogue, as well as transmitting FM radio stations BBC London 94.9, XFM, Choice FM and Virgin Radio. The tower is often overlooked as a landmark due to its simplicity and location.
Severn Bridge
The Severn Bridge is a Grade I suspension bridge between England and Wales consisting of four structures, which cost around £8 million to build.
Due to only two lanes in each direction and carrying 50,000 cars a day at it’s peak, the Severn Bridge become a bottleneck This led to the creation of the second Severn crossing.
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