heavens to betsey they've only gone and listed the forton services tower. i know. i never thought english heritage had it in them. well done you. really. even the list entry is full of glories...
"distinguished by its unique landmark 22 m tower with cantilevered restaurant and sun deck... a new popularist
architecture ideally suited to the democratic new aesthetic of the
motorway, the Pennine Tower Restaurant acting both as a beacon to
attract the passing motorists and as a glamorous vantage point from
which they were able to enjoy spectacular prospects of the motorway
below and more extensively over the miles of surrounding countryside
through which they passing... evoking the modern
glamour of 1960s air travel and also drawing on the progressive urban
movement of this period of constructing towers with restaurants and
observation platforms"
it's a top class bit of motorway too that bit of m6 between preston and lancaster. nice bridges. and don't give me any of that madison county nonesense neither. full of spikey youth squashed into all parts of pete's just about motor to chinatown and diner and breathless and all those picture house reels of wonder and orange juice at the sugarhouse memories teas and bensons and penine towers
now please save preston bus station
the pharoahs - freedom road
ps
the full english heritage listing is
here
pps
more forton ...
fortonservices.webs.com/
