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BT Tower - still called the Post Office tower by many - was built in the 1960s
as an aerial tower for microwave communications (these days largely redundant) |
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Regarded as of strategic importance, the tower did not appear on maps until
relatively recently and even taking a photograph of it was technically illegal. |
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From ground-level to the arial platform (1), behind the green tinted glass (2)
there are rooms housing the communications equipment.
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Above the aerial platform is a viewing gallery and revolving restaurant (3) but
this has been closed to the public since 1980 and is now only used for
corporate entertainment. |
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The lifts in the tower are some of the fastest in Europe taking just over 20
seconds to reach the top. | |