The Cabin Lift on the seafront in Blackpool, Lancashire
The Cabin Lift was built in 1930 to a design by John Charles Robinson, Blackpool Borough Surveyor, for the purpose of moving passengers via two lifts between the upper promenade tram stop and the lower promenade walkway, artificial cliffs and former boating pool. The front portion of the building that formerly contained a waiting shelter on the upper promenade and extended across a bridge to the lift shaft has been demolished at an unspecified date and access to the south lift has been walled up. The current north lift was installed in 1990 and replaced an original lift. Ladies and Gentleman's toilets built into the cliff immediately below the upper promenade and formerly accessed by walkways to either side of the cabin lift were refitted in the 1970s; they are currently boarded up and inaccessible. The former doors giving access into the lift tower from the artificial cliffs have been bricked up. On the lower promenade the former doors giving access into a tunnel that runs below the artificial cliffs to the lift tower have been removed and this entrance remodelled with modern smaller doors inserted. The tunnel has been subdivided at an unspecified date by the insertion of a dividing wall along its length and currently only the northern part of the tunnel gives access to the lift.
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Location: Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK
Photo credit: © Barrie Neil / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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