Publish date: 6 July 2023
On the week of the NHS’s 75th birthday, Blackpool had two towers lit up in blue to mark the special day.
While Blackpool Tower shines out across the town, Blackpool Teaching Hospitals is also celebrating as the renovated clock tower near the A&E at Blackpool Victoria Hospital is unveiled.
The clock tower’s reveal will show off new features including exterior lighting. And in a nod to its slightly more famous counterpart down the road, the Clock Tower was lit in blue to see in the special birthday.
The clock tower now been re-painted, has a repaired roof and had its mouldings repaired and conserved. There’ll also be a new clock mechanism and weather vane installed when all of the renovations are complete – due to be later in July.
The historic clock tower moved to its current site after being removed from the original main hospital building which was built in the 1930s.
You can see it in its previous position here during the 1930s ...
