The 164ft Big Wheel is coming to Blackburn after the success of a similar attraction.

A Google search looking for information about the first American Ferris Wheel is emphatic. The original "Ferris" wheel was erected for the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago at a cost ...

“Too fragile,” he said. Ferris was hardly the first to imagine such a wheel. In fact, a carpenter named William Somers was building 50-foot wooden wheels at Asbury Park, Atlantic City and ...