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Want to bring tower down?
TODAY the Lynn News is offering a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for one lucky reader to have their finger on the button when the iconic Campbell’s tower at Lynn is demolished later this month.
Mechanical diggers and grabs have been pulling apart the former Campbell’s office complex and buildings facing Hardwick Road in readiness for Tesco’s £40m redevelopment of its store and the adjoining site.
Now arrangements are being made to bring down the brick-built water tower in a controlled explosion and the Lynn News, with Tesco’s consent, is looking for a special person to have a hand in local history that day.
We want to hear who you think deserves to press the button – and we need your nominations by next Friday at the latest because of the impending demolition.
Tesco spokesman Louise Gosling said the explosion would be designed to make the tower collapse in on itself, so that debris was not widely scattered, and the whole process should take less than three minutes.
It will be a historic moment as the tower has been one of Lynn’s best known landmarks for more than 50 years and symbolised the town’s economic regeneration in the 1950s and ‘60s.
The factory was the first major Campbell’s plant to be built outside the USA and, at its height, it produced more than 60 varieties of soup and other foodstuffs, exporting to more than 50 countries.
Two years ago, Lynn Civic Society launched a campaign to try and save the tower from destruction and applied to have it listed. A survey on our website – www.lynnnews.co.uk – showed 53 per cent for keeping it, 47 per cent against.
But in January last year, English Heritage and the Culture Secretary decided it was not important enough to save and, while disappointed by this ruling, the civic society said it wanted to work with Tesco to make sure historical information about the factory and tower featured in the new development.
• Nominations should be sent by email to mike.last@lynnnews.co.uk, or by post to Mike Last, Senior Writer, Lynn News, Limes House, Purfleet Street, King’s Lynn, Norfolk, PE30 1HL.
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Thursday 23 February 2012
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