The Beetham tower
Introduction
The photograph on this page of The Beetham tower by Bob Harvey as part of the Geograph project.
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The Beetham tower
Image: © Bob Harvey Taken: 21 May 2017
There are several buildings in Britain called "The Beetham Tower", none of them an enhancement to their local architecture. This is probably the ugliest of the set, and it is certainly the most hideous building that this poor benighted city has been subjected to in an intermittent flurry of the building of excreable and out of place towers. The witless "blade" on the top of the building serves no purpose but agrandisment, being left over from the original plan for 50 floors. They only built 47, as the building was approaching the limits of its stability. The "blade" produces a large hum or howl in windy weather, that can keep a whole city awake. Manchester deserves better than this. The web site for the parent company is at http://www.beethamtower.org/ if you want to read more of the shameless nonsense that the perpetrators of this horror use to justify themselves.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.475315
Longitude
-2.250817