Foredown Tower - $$3.50

Built in 1909 as a water tower it is now converted into a tourist center in Portslade, East Sussex, England. As you can see it looks quite well as a brick and slate industrial building.

Foredown Tower downloadable cardmodel

Foredown Tower

Foredown Tower,image Built in 1909 as a water tower it is now converted into a tourist center in Portslade, East Sussex, England. As you can see it looks quite well as a brick and slate industrial building.
This model was designed by my friend, Brian White, Wiltshire, England


It originally served as a water tower for Hove Isolation Hospital, a sanatorium where patients with infectious diseases were isolated. The structure survived the demolition of the hospital in 1988–89. It was opened to the public in 1991 and currently features a "camera obscura" in the top of the tower which projects an image of the outside area onto a dish 18 feet below.


Foredown Tower photo photo of the front of Foredown Tower photo of the front angle of Foredown Tower
Foredown Tower Photos taken from Foredown Rd - Portslade, Brighton England


photo of camera obscura at foredown
"East to the By-pass" photo of camera obscura at foredown by John Desborough


AI sitting room of Foredown sanatorium historic photo of doctors and patients in Foredown Hospital
left: A.I. generated image by DALL·E openAI prompted with "An old black and white photo of Foredown Hospital with doctors and nurses posing among hospital beds filled with patients along both sides with a square black table in the center with flowers in decorative pots, and there is a fireplace in the background, and there is a window on the left wall." September 3rd, 2022
right: actual historic photo





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