Workmen remove crystal chandeliers from Blackpool Tower ballroom for spring clean

Workmen have meticulously removed priceless crystal chandeliers from the ceiling of the Blackpool Tower ballroom for their annual spring clean.

Staff at the iconic venue delicately lowered the lights, which each weigh over half a tonne, onto specially built scaffold towers to ensure the thousands of individual hand-cut crystals are protected.

The two chandeliers are in the ballroom, which features on Strictly Come Dancing every year, and are then hand polished.

But for the first time in over 50 years the bespoke rope mechanism, which is used to hoist the chandeliers up into the roof space, is also being replaced.