Photos: BT Tower at 40

London's landmark through the years - in pictures

By Steve Ranger, 10 October 2005 12:15

The tower was designed to meet the increased demands of broadcasting by allowing the use of microwaves instead of landlines for transmitting television signals.

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  1. 1. Simon Cox

    3,000 switched calls per day is not very impressive even for 40 years ago and I have to agree that it does seem that there is more live football broadcast than there is ordinary telly - "99 per cent of all live football and terrestrial television passes through"!

    No one mentioned the rotating resturant at the top which is still there as far as I am aware. I have been in it 3 times and at night it is superb. It was originally open to the public.

  2. 2. Jason Forster

    Don't forget the most famous pic of the tower...

    http://tinypic.com/ehwylk.jpg

  3. 3. Simon

    I'm with Tony Benn on this, it really is a disgrace that a national landmark, built with public money, is closed to public access.

  4. 4. Richard

    To Simon in Cumbria,

    Yes it was built with private money, but now it is private, owned by a publically floated company.

    The restaurant as far as I am aware is now an inadaquate conferencing faclility, closed due to the terrorist threat.

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