| 词条 | Bettison's Folly |
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At the time, Bettison was a Hull-based brewer who built the folly in what was then his garden. In those days communication was by sight, so his manservant would ascend the tower at the usual time his master returned from work, see him descending Southorpe hill and run down the tower to ensure "dinner was served" as the master walked into the house. It incorporates a cranked up flagpole, initially installed to convey private messages. During the Second World War the tower was an air raid look-out point and siren (Hull was the most heavily bombed UK city after London). The siren was still in use in the late 1950s when a new siren was erected on the new firestation on Southgate. The Folly is decorated with locally made "treacle" bricks, highly fired for durability and subject to misshaping. Nowadays, Bettison's Folly is a Grade II listed building[5] and stands in the middle of a new housing estate off Newbegin, the main street. It is rarely open to the public.[6] In 2011, Huffington Post included the folly in their unordered list of the "Top 10 Pieces of Folly Architecture."[2] References1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/humber/content/articles/2009/05/11/bettison_folly_feature.shtml|title=Forgotten folly|work=BBC Humberside|publisher=BBC|accessdate=11 May 2010}} [3][4]2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/10/the-top-10-pieces-of-foll_n_1087467.html|title=The Top 10 Pieces Of Folly Architecture (PHOTOS)|work=Huffington Post|accessdate=8 June 2015}} 3. ^1 {{cite news|title=Heritage open days |url=http://www.driffieldtoday.co.uk/news/Heritage-open-days.3174631.jp |newspaper=Driffield Post |date= 5 September 2007 |accessdate=20 September 2009}} 4. ^1 {{NHLE|num=1249626|desc=Folly|accessdate=27 February 2013}} }} External links{{Commons category|Bettison's Folly, Hornsea|Bettison's Folly}}
4 : Grade II listed buildings in the East Riding of Yorkshire|Towers in the East Riding of Yorkshire|Folly towers in England|Hornsea |
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