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Subject: I remember the GPO in Britain


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Jim (Canada)
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Date Posted: 14:52:10 12/03/04 Fri
In reply to: Dave (UK) 's message, "Scottish Regiments Update" on 11:45:41 12/03/04 Fri
 I remember visiting the UK about 1971 and London had a GPO tower which had an observation deck. Is this now called a BT Tower?
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Dave (UK)
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Date Posted: 15:12:27 12/03/04 Fri
A tower so secret that it does not appear on any maps, although this may have changed.

It doesn't quite compare with the CN tower though does it?

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Trixta (UK)
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Date Posted: 14:47:05 12/04/04 Sat
I've heard that about the BT tower - it's supposedly an official secret (like the location of the MI6 HQ [backdrop to the 007 film TWINE] and the operation of the Royal Mail).

I don't know if it's still the same but I heard a couple of years ago that it was, technically, a criminal offence to direct someone to the BT Tower - even if it was just across the road.

Ah, the wonderful world of Official Secrets!

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[> [> [> [> Subject: Post Office Tower


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Ed Harris (Venezia)
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Date Posted: 16:45:17 12/04/04 Sat
Somehow I doubt that it is an official secret... notwithstanding the fact that my place in London is practically at the bottom of it, and I regularly pass underneath it without seeing a single mean-looking security guard, it is true that for years one could go to the revolving restaurant in the top. I do not think that this is true of the MI6 building at Vauxhall! I went up there just before it was closed, and, while I was admittedly very young at the time, I do not recall seeing on the menus the legends "This bill of fare will self-destruct in five seconds" or, "remember: be sure not to tell your friends where you ate today"...

Having said that, when they switch on the x-thousand gigawatt military searchlights on the top to test them, the bloody thing can light up the skies above the capital to the extent that it hardly seems like night-time. There's some pretty mean equipment in that edifice.

Oh, and p.s., no true Londoner would ever call it the BT Tower or Telecom Tower. It is the Post Office Tower, whatever the overpayed electricians at BT may say.

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