We know the building but our memories were struggling to picture it as the Tower Shopping Centre. It was clearly a big deal at the time but was possibly quite short-lived. On the back of one of the photos from its earliest days it says it was a new era in Blackpool shopping. It was a £14.5m project which was ‘setting new standards for the resort and creating a concept not see at this level before in Blackpool’. It later became Littlewoods and then Primark. The photos explain what it was like inside. Do you remember more about it? We would love to hear from you.
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. Tower Shopping Centre memories
Scaffolding was up in this scene from 1989 as work continued on the new development which replaced the old Binns store Photo: National World
. Tower Shopping Centre
Can you remember this? The caption on the back says 'The spacious shopping centre entrance area, there are marble floors throughout' There's definitely a familiarity about it and you can see where Littlewoods sprang from - and Primark Photo: National World
1. Tower Shopping Centre memories
Scaffolding was up in this scene from 1989 as work continued on the new development which replaced the old Binns store Photo: National World
2. Tower Shopping Centre
People browsing the stalls inside. An ice-cream menu pinned to the wall to the right and in the distance personalised rock was on sale Photo: National World
3. Tower Shopping Centre
The exterior work at the centre set it apart from the rest. It cost £14.5m to build Photo: National World
4. Tower Shopping Centre
This was in 1995 and the signs were there for re-leasing the complex Photo: National World
5. Tower Shopping Centre
Littlewoods came next for the Bank Hey Street complex Photo: Rob Lock
