st.georges place 1961

[PhilipG]

St John's Precinct was opened on 6 April 1970, so the tower must have been complete then, because it was the chimney for the original heating system
The official opening of the Tower in June 1971 by the Queen was because she opened the Wallasey Tunnel at the same time.

In 1967 I lived in Southport and got the train to Exchange, and there was enough of the tower to guide me to the pubs I liked in and around Queen Square and Lime Street, before I got my bearings.

[Waterways]

St John's Precinct was opened on 6 April 1970, so the tower must have been complete then, because it was the chimney for the original heating system

It was designed to be a tower. They used it as a chimney. I worked on it.

[PhilipG]

It was designed to be a tower. They used it as a chimney. I worked on it.

We've been through this before.
If it was used as a chimney, it means a chimney was needed.
Ergo, it was designed as a chimney, with a revolving restaurant.
ADW, I know you worked on it, but if Joseph Sharples said it's primary function was a chimney, I'll take his work for it.
Quentin Hughes, another local architectural expert, said in 1969 that it was a chimney.

[Waterways]

We've been through this before.
If it was used as a chimney, it means a chimney was needed.
Ergo, it was designed as a chimney, with a revolving restaurant.
ADW, I know you worked on it, but if Joseph Sharples said it's primary function was a chimney, I'll take his work for it.
Quentin Hughes, another local architectural expert, said in 1969 that it was a chimney.

The chimney (flue is more the word as it was gas) was conveniently put inside. Not the other way around. Gas flues even in the 1960s could be any shape and type and did not have to tower into the sky.