Twin Towers (Wembley) Twin Towers (Wembley) The Twin Towers were part of the original Wembley Stadium in London, England. They were constructed in 1923 on the site of Watkin's Tower in Wembley, and came to be recognised as one of the iconic symbols of English football in general and of Wembley Stadium in particular. They became grade II listed buildings in 1976, but they were demolished in 2003 to make way for the new Wembley Stadium. The towers were designed by Sir Robert McAlpine for the construction of Empire Stadium (later known as Wembley Stadium) in time for the British Empire Exhibition on
Wembley Stadium (1923) Marathon and the 1923 Stadium feature in the South Korean war film "My Way" (2011), though the marathon is clearly filmed in Riga, rather than London, and the stadium standing in for Wembley has an anachronistic electronic scoreboard. John Betjeman is shown standing in the Stadium in his 1973 BBC film "Metroland", though, as John Bale has pointed out in "Anti-Sport Sentiments in Literature: Batting for the Opposition" (Routledge, 2007), he shows no real interest in Wembley's sporting connections, either here or elsewhere. In Nigel Kneale's 1979 "Quatermass", in which ancient stone circles turn out to be locations designed by