 The company Maxwell and Tuke , who had designed Blackpool Tower buildings and Southport Winter Gardens , was responsible for overseeing and supervising the project , despite the deaths in 1893 of the company founders , James Maxwell and William Charles Tuke . The excavations and laying of the foundations for the tower were contracted to William Clapham of Stockport . The primary contractor for the tower was Andrew Handyside and Company , based in Derby . 
