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Description: | The Ferris wheel at the Earls Court Exhibition Ground stands at the end of Barons Court sidings on the Great Northern and Piccadilly Tube Railway.
The Earl's Court Ferris wheel, inspired by the one at the Chicago Exhibition World's Fair in 1893, was built in 1895. It was 300 feet (91 metres) in diameter and had both first- and second-class cars. Ten of the 40 cars were first class. The wheel also had smoking and non-smoking accommodation.
The wheel became stuck in 1896, and passengers were stranded for four and a half hours rather than having the 20-minute ride they were expecting. The wheel closed in 1906 because its popularity had declined and it was no longer making a profit. However the London Eye on the South Bank, which was built to celebrate the millennium, is a successful reworking of the same concept. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | Leisure Cityscape | Temporal: | 1906 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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