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The Broadway Tower (UK)
The 'Saxon' tower was the brainchild of Capability Brown and designed by James Wyatt in 1794 in the form of a castle, and built for Barbara, Countess of Coventry in 1798–1799. Broadway Hill was a beacon hill, where beacons were lit on special occasions. Lady Coventry wondered whether a beacon on this hill could be seen from her house in Worcester—about 22 miles (35 km) away—and sponsored the construction of the folly to find out. Indeed, the tower was clearly visible.
From 1822 to 1862, the tower housed the private printing press of Sir Thomas Phillipps.[1] By the mid-1870s, it was being rented by C. J. Stone and Cormell Price. Price was headmaster of the United Services College at Westward Ho! and a friend of artists William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti; in 1876 Morris wrote in a letter to Aglaia Coronio that he was "up at Crom Price's Tower among the winds and the clouds".
Near the tower is a memorial to the crew of an A.W.38 Whitley bomber that crashed there during a training mission in June 1943.
In the late 1950s, an underground Royal Observer Corps bunker was built 50 yards (46 m) away to collect evidence of nuclear explosions. It was decommissioned in 1991 but has been restored and is now one of the few such Cold War monitoring facilities in England still extant and accessible to visitors.
Information by Wikipedia.
Artwork by William Walton & Topaz Studio 2
The Broadway Tower (UK)
The 'Saxon' tower was the brainchild of Capability Brown and designed by James Wyatt in 1794 in the form of a castle, and built for Barbara, Countess of Coventry in 1798–1799. Broadway Hill was a beacon hill, where beacons were lit on special occasions. Lady Coventry wondered whether a beacon on this hill could be seen from her house in Worcester—about 22 miles (35 km) away—and sponsored the construction of the folly to find out. Indeed, the tower was clearly visible.
From 1822 to 1862, the tower housed the private printing press of Sir Thomas Phillipps.[1] By the mid-1870s, it was being rented by C. J. Stone and Cormell Price. Price was headmaster of the United Services College at Westward Ho! and a friend of artists William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti; in 1876 Morris wrote in a letter to Aglaia Coronio that he was "up at Crom Price's Tower among the winds and the clouds".
Near the tower is a memorial to the crew of an A.W.38 Whitley bomber that crashed there during a training mission in June 1943.
In the late 1950s, an underground Royal Observer Corps bunker was built 50 yards (46 m) away to collect evidence of nuclear explosions. It was decommissioned in 1991 but has been restored and is now one of the few such Cold War monitoring facilities in England still extant and accessible to visitors.
Information by Wikipedia.
Artwork by William Walton & Topaz Studio 2