Shelter on Queen's Promenade, Blackpool

Promenade shelter, probably pre-1914, relocated between 1931 and 1938, by Walter MacFarlane and Co of the Saracen foundry, Glasgow.

MATERIALS: cast-iron columns, brackets, roof beams, gutters and dado panels, with wooden screens, and tin-covered roof.

DESCRIPTION: of rectangular plan, with slim columns at the corners, linked by screens at each end, and with an axial screen aligned north-south. The round columns have plain capitals and each has two foliate brackets (only projecting outboard of the column, two missing) in open arabesque pattern, supporting the roof beams. The swept roof has a spine roll-ridge. Ogee gutters are mounted on plain fascias. The screens have a dado with a rectangular decorative panel, and (now unglazed) upper glazing panels, partially boarded with plywood.

The brackets match design type 39 on p644 of a MacFarlanes catalogue of approximately 1890.