How London almost got its own Eiffel Tower
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London was once on track to have its own bigger, better Eiffel Tower, a gigantic metal creation that would reach to 1,200 feet. But as the creation rose over the city's suburbs, it all went wrong.
(CNN) — Somewhere beneath the pitch of England's national stadium in Wembley, London, lie the foundations of what could have been the city's tallest building. Inspired by the Eiffel Tower in Paris, the Great Tower of London was poised to surpass it in height and reach almost 1,200 feet.
Instead, it never went past the first construction stage, which came to be known as the "London Stump." It was demolished almost 120 years ago, leaving behind an unfulfilled dream and large concrete foundations that were rediscovered in 2002, when the current stadium was built to replace an older one.
So what went wrong?
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