Blackpool Tower

As always you arrive to find the primary thing you intend to photograph is in the process of upgrading it's skeleton but could you ever expect such a magnificent sky?
Compensated for too by a nice hour long drive along quiet country roads for 90% of the way.
Blackpool is besieged, with holes being dug in most of the major entries to the town and the town centre too, let's hope they fill them up before the main season commences, or chaos will reign!

The extra picture shows what a great paint job they are giving it and a closer view of the summit:)

The tower is 518 feet high...The total cost for the design and construction of the tower and buildings was about £290,000. Five million Accrington bricks, 2,500 tonnes of iron and 93 tonnes of cast steel were used to construct the tower. Unlike the Eiffel Tower, Blackpool Tower is not free-standing. Its base is hidden by the building which houses Blackpool Tower Circus. The building occupies a total of 5,050 square metres (54,400 sq ft) At the summit of the tower there is a flagpole.