Watkin's Folly pub, Wembley

Introduction

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Watkin's Folly pub, Wembley

Image: © Christopher Hilton Taken: 31 Aug 2016

The development of the Wembley area owes much to Sir Edward Watkin, the chairman of various railway companies that stretched from the north to the Channel. In the late nineteenth century he proposed the erection of a tower here to rival the Eiffel Tower, only the bottom of which was ever completed: "Watkin's Folly" stood there for a few years before the site was used for the British Empire Exhibition and the first Wembley stadium, developments that shaped the current look of the area.

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