Dr Sharp built this to house the village hearse, then the Parish Clerk, and now it's a private house, but always known as Dr Sharp's Folly. #Hartburn #Northumberland #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk
Merryweather's C18 Observatory, jammed on top of the mediaeval Lincoln Castle. #Lincolnshire #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk
A tower in the shape of a huge gothic letter 'B' to commemorate German leader Otto von Bismarck. #BismarckTurm #Aachen #Germany #ForeignFollyFriday #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk
Hopton Tower, appropriately built in the grounds of Folly House to keep an eye on labourers on the estate. #Hambledon #Hampshire #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk
Pity we can no longer read Alexander Pope's inscription on the stepped pyramid at #Halswell #Goathurst #Somerset #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk
In memory of the Danes and Saxons hacked down here in 850, Henry Holland erected Hackemdown Tower in the 1760s. #Kingsgate #Kent #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk
The deliberately ruined garden temple where Handel did NOT compose Messiah. #Gopsall #Leicestershire #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk
We still don't know why Joseph Williamson spent his life and his fortune tunnelling under his native #Liverpool #Merseyside #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk
A house built of pressed sheet metal — in summer an oven, in winter a fridge. Château de Fer #Ath #Belgium #ForeignFollyFriday #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk
An experiment in concrete blocks, not to be repeated. #CastleHouse #Bridgwater #Somerset #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk
It looked like Lord Brownlow in trousers, hence Lord Brownlow's Breeches, or Belmount Tower #Belton #Lincolnshire #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk
Lucy The Elephant, built 1881 in Margate, NJ. #NewJersey #USA #ForeignFollyFriday #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk