Blackpool Great Ferris Wheel Large Souvenir Printed Cloth Circa 1902 Fine illustration of the. Ferris Wheel with in the corners The Palace, The Blackpool Hippodrome, New Town Hall and the Tower, and being Coronation Year portraits of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra. Size 18” ´ 18½”. One of four Ferris Wheels built by Walter B. Bassett, opened in 1896 it was over 200 feet high and existed until 1928. The one survivor is still in Vienna