Bill Galloway / Ray Anderson: Forton Services, 1964C–1965
- Lancaster, Great Britain, Show on map
- #Western Europe
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Forton Services was designed by Bill Galloway and Ray Anderson of the architecture firm TP Bennett and Son. It is a motorway service station at the M6 motorway in England. Besides the two flat-roofed buildings connected by a pedestrian footbridge, the Pennine Tower is what makes the services distinctive. The hexagonal concrete tower originally housed a cantilevered restaurant and a sun deck. Resembling an Air Traffic Control Tower it is a famous landmark today.
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The restaurant closed in 1989 due to current fire regulations and is today used for storage and occasional staff training. The Tower is listed Grade II since 2012. Recently, the tower has been painted in a Beige colour and one of the passenger lifts has been refurbished.