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London's iconic B T Tower / Post office tower in the heart of London's West end.
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Top Of The Tower Aka GPO Tower (1967)
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Several L/Ss of the GPO / Post Office Tower (nowadays known as the British Telecom Tower). Several shots show the great views from the revolving restaurant at the top of the tower. People are seen eating in the restaurant (run by Butlin's - really!) and looking out at the view.
Pathe cameraman David Allan is seen looking out of the window; a Pathe couple (named in paperwork as Graham and Mary Ann - she is in lots of late 60s Colour Pics) sit eating a table. Cameraman Stan Goozee's feet are seen as he steps from the revolving restaurant to the 'core'. Waiters serve food; good shots of restaurant food of this era - looks quite swanky.
M/S of the top of the tower, zooming in for C/U of the section where the restaurant is situated. What a shame this part of the tower is no longer open to the public!
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Skyscraper Video #223: BT Tower ( Birmingham )
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BT Tower, also known as Post Office Tower and GPO Tower, is a telecommunication building in 40 Lionel Street, Birmingham, England, UK. It had the height of 152 metres | 499 ft and 31 floors. The construction started in July 1963 and completed in September 1966. After completion, it is the tallest building in Birmingham since 1965. The tower was designed to be stable in high winds. There were two steel rails on one wall on which a trolley was designed to run to carry the dishes up to the aerial galleries. In August 2003, the tower was painted an ultramarine blue to cover the existing light brown which had started to discolour. On 18 March 2004, Jasper Carrott switched on the night time illuminations of the tower in response to Birmingham City Council's policy of encouraging the illumination of local landmarks.
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Visiting The BT Tower's Revolving 34th Floor Viewing Gallery, London
Spectacular Views over London from the top of the BT Tower's revolving viewing gallery. Looking down over the West End, the City of London, North London, Regents Park and right over to Alexandra Palace.
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The BT Tower is a communications tower located in Fitzrovia, London, owned by BT Group. It has been previously known as the Post Office Tower, the London Telecom Tower and the British Telecom Tower. The main structure is 177 metres (581 ft) high, with a further section of aerial rigging bringing the total height to 191 metres (627 ft). It should not be confused with the BT Centre (the global headquarters of BT). Its Post Office code was YTOW.
In 1962, while still under construction, the BT Tower overtook St Paul's Cathedral to become the tallest building in London. Upon completion it overtook the Millbank Tower (which had been constructed faster) to once again become the tallest building in both London and the United Kingdom, titles it held until 1980, when it in turn was overtaken by the NatWest Tower.
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The BT Tower is a communications tower located in Fitzrovia, London, owned by BT Group. It has been previously known as the GPO Tower, the Post Office Tower and the Telecom Tower. The main structure is 177 metres (581 ft) high, with a further section of aerial rigging bringing the total height to 191 metres (627 ft). It should not be confused with the BT Centre (the global headquarters of BT). Its Post Office code was YTOW.
Upon completion it overtook the Millbank Tower to become the tallest building in both London and the United Kingdom, titles it held until 1980, when it in turn was overtaken by the NatWest Tower.
BT Tower | Central London | Telecom Tower | TV Eye | 1983
Once the tallest building in both London and the UK, the BT Tower in central London.
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The BT Tower is a communications tower located in Fitzrovia, London, owned by BT Group. It has been previously known as the GPO Tower, the Post Office Tower and the Telecom Tower. The main structure is 177 metres (581 ft) high, with a further section of aerial rigging bringing the total height to 191 metres (627 ft). Its Post Office code was YTOW.
Upon completion in 1964, it overtook the Millbank Tower to become the tallest building in both London and the United Kingdom, titles that it held until 1980, when it in turn was overtaken by the NatWest Tower.
The tower was commissioned by the General Post Office (GPO). Its primary purpose was to support the microwave aerials then used to carry telecommunications traffic from London to the rest of the country, as part of the General Post Office microwave network.
It replaced a much shorter steel lattice tower which had been built on the roof of the neighbouring Museum telephone exchange in the late 1940s to provide a television link between London and Birmingham. The taller structure was required to protect the radio links' line of sight against some of the tall buildings in London then in the planning stage. These links were routed via other GPO microwave stations at Harrow Weald, Bagshot, Kelvedon Hatch and Fairseat, and to places like the London Air Traffic Control Centre at West Drayton.
The tower was designed by the architects of the Ministry of Public Building and Works: the chief architects were Eric Bedford and G. R. Yeats. Typical for its time, the building is concrete clad in glass. The narrow cylindrical shape was chosen because of the requirements of the communications aerials: the building will shift no more than 25 centimetres (10 in) in wind speeds of up to 150 km/h (95 mph). Initially, the first 16 floors were for technical equipment and power. Above that was a 35-metre section for the microwave aerials, and above that were six floors of suites, kitchens, technical equipment and finally a cantilevered steel lattice tower. To prevent heat build-up, the glass cladding was of a special tint. The construction cost was £2.5 million.
Construction began in June 1961; owing to the building's height and its having a tower crane jib across the top virtually throughout the whole construction period, it gradually became a very prominent landmark that could be seen from almost anywhere in London. A question was raised in Parliament about the crane, in August 1963. Reginald Bennett MP asked the Minister of Public Buildings and Works, Geoffrey Rippon, how, when the crane on the top of the new Tower had fulfilled its purpose, he proposed to remove it. Rippon replied: This is a matter for the contractors. The problem does not have to be solved for about a year but there appears to be no danger of the crane having to be left in situ.[2]
The tower was topped out on 15 July 1964, and officially opened by the then Prime Minister Harold Wilson on 8 October 1965. The main contractor was Peter Lind & Co Ltd.[3]
The tower was originally designed to be just 111 metres (364 ft) high; its foundations are sunk down through 53 metres of London clay, and are formed of a concrete raft 27 metres square, a metre thick, reinforced with six layers of cables, on top of which sits a reinforced concrete pyramid.
Post Office Tower
Graduate engineer at Transport for London, Louis Watson, talks to us from the top of the Post Office Tower, more commonly known today as the BT Tower. The tower was designed to relay the microwave signals used to carry telecommunications from London to other parts of the country. Its height was needed to protect the radio links’ ‘lines of sight’ against some of the tall buildings that were then planned for London.
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A bomb blast in Britain's tallest building, the Post Office Tower, damaging three floors. Twenty four hours later another bomb blast at the Regimental HQ of the Royal Tank Regiment.
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Open House London 2017 - BT Tower
The BT Tower is a communications tower located in Fitzrovia, London, owned by BT Group. It has been previously known as the GPO Tower, the Post Office Tower and the Telecom Tower. The main structure is 177 metres (581 ft) high, with a further section of aerial rigging bringing the total height to 191 metres (627 ft). It should not be confused with the BT Centre (the global headquarters of BT). Its Post Office code was YTOW.
Upon completion it overtook the Millbank Tower to become the tallest building in both London and the United Kingdom, titles it held until 1980, when it in turn was overtaken by the NatWest Tower.
Filmed in September, 2017
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Birmingham's landmark BT Tower has turned 50
Birmingham's BT Tower - the tallest building in the West Midlands - has turned 50 years old.
The reinforced concrete structure, which weighs 6,000 tonnes and is just under 500ft (150m) tall, was built by the Ministry of Public Buildings and Works.
It took about two years to build, with the tower structure being completed in September 1966.
The tower was opened on 5 October 1967 by the Lord Mayor of Birmingham, Alderman James S Meadows.
A Trip up the BT Tower - Revolving 34th Floor
The tower was officially opened to the public on 16 May 1966 by Tony Benn and Billy Butlin. As well as the communications equipment and office space there were viewing galleries, a souvenir shop and a rotating restaurant on the 34th floor, called the Top of the Tower and operated by Butlins. It made one revolution every 22 minutes.
The restaurant was closed to the public for security reasons in 1980; however it is occasionally open for special events including Open House London, where a public ballot is operated for tickets. Visited on 16 September 2017.
Post Office Tower
Fake Teak's first single is a song of nostalgia for the 1960s, when the iconic Post Office Tower, with its technical wizardry and revolving restaurant, seemed to symbolise the era's optimism for the future.
Yet amid those dreams of 1965, darker forces were at work, and in Post Office Tower Fake Teak explores parallels between the 60s and our own turbulent times.