Porrott’s Folly
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nyone who has seen the films will be struck by the similarity between the 96ft Perrott’s Folly, a lighthouse-like brick structure on Waterworks Road Birmingham, too the orc infestive fortress of Isengard, home of the evil wizard Saruman and his secrets. The same applies to the Edgbaston Waterworks Tower, just a couple of hundred yards down the same road. A century ago, Tolkien would of seen this churning out sinister black smoked plumes from the engine down below, which later inspired the smoked riddled barren wasteland, Mordor. Perrott’s Folly Illustration: Samuel Burns