BT Tower - history, chat and news and conversion to a luxury hotel
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My aunty and uncle who lived down south took me and my older brother up the GPO Tower in the late 60s. I remember being very impressed with it. We never got to eat in the revolving restaurant but be and our kid sneaked in there for a nose around. It all seemed very posh to us wee Salford scallywags. I also remember that one of the floors (I think the one under the restaurant) was basically empty with no one about, no glass in the windows and had a definite multi-story car park feel to it. Hmm... I wonder if that's where the bomb was planted a few years later?
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I think the bomb was planted in the toilets in the public area. The Angry brigade claimed it but it's probably more likely to have been an PIRA ASU (or whatever they called them back then) running out of North London.
Given the tower's importance to the microwave trunk system for comms back then it would have been a real coup if they had taken out the comms functions.
The microwave backbone is all replaced fibre optic cable now which is why the tower isn't needed anymore.
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As I can’t be arsed to check through the thread to see if it’s been disclosed, when was the tower declassified? I am sure I remember reading more than once that for many years it actually didn’t appear on any A-Z maps because it was classified as an essential communications asset. Which is laughable.
