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Exterior of the Winter Gardens Complex, Blackpool, 1996

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Colour photograph showing the façade, sidewall and roofs of the various structures that make up the Wintergardens Complex in Blackpool. Taken from high up on a building across the road from the entrance, it shows three columns framing a recessed main entrance at the base of a curved corner, rising to a conical tower with a flat roof. ‘Welcome to the Wintergardens’, and ‘Wintergardens Blackpool’ appear above the entrance, and posters at street-level advertise a ‘Collector’s Market in the Olympia’. The window features at first floor level are repeated on each sidewall, which rise to a central gable (the sidewall to the left being partly out of shot). A three-storey red brick sidewall continues the building on the right hand side and is topped by a large set back barrel-vaulted roof, masked in part by the façade, possible housing the Empress Ballroom. Two larger structures are visible in the background; the building on the left has filled-in arched windows along the upper storey, a curved wall at the end and a sloping roof housing an extra attic; on the right can be seen a curved grey roof behind a wide gable. The Winter Gardens Pavilion (theatre) and the Opera House are most probably contained within these structures.

Image title
Exterior of the Winter Gardens Complex, Blackpool, 1996
Depicted theatre
Winter Gardens Complex
Depiction dateApril 1996
Creator
Mr Ian Grundy