The High Tower for London.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 194, 12 March 1887, Page 3 (Supplement)

The High Tower for London.

We are informed that it is intended to construct a large tower in London in commemoration of the jubilee year of her Majesty's reign, The tower is to be 440 feet high at the extreme top and 420 feet at the top platform, from which may be seen eight or nine counties. It will overlook every other structure yet built in London. The base of the tower will be seventy-five feet square, and there will be a foundation of some twenty-five feet. It is proposed to erect this structure at the top of Oxford -street, where the ground lies high, and it is expected that the work will bs commenced in January next, The ironwork (of which there are some hundred tons) is placed in the Horsly Iron Company of Westminster and Tipton, Staffordshire, whose tender is £10,0< 0. The* excavation and brickwork will be carried out by William King & Sons, of Pimlico. John Horton is the managing director. We understand that the pame of the structure has not yet been decided upon.— -"London Truth."

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