The BT Tower is a tall cylindrical building in London, England. The tower is located at 60 Cleveland Street, Fitzrovia. It has been previously known as the Post Office Tower and the British Telecom Tower. The main structure is 177 metres (581 ft) tall, with a further section of aerial bringing the total height to 189 metres (620 ft). It should not be confused with the BT Centre (the national headquarters of BT). Its Post Office code was YTOW.
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The BT Tower is a tall cylindrical building in London, England. The tower is located at 60 Cleveland Street, Fitzrovia. It has been previously known as the Post Office Tower and the British Telecom Tower. The main structure is 177 metres (581 ft) tall, with a further section of aerial bringing the total height to 189 metres (620 ft). It should not be confused with the BT Centre (the national headquarters of BT). Its Post Office code was YTOW.
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.
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...
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