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The BT Tower in London's West End, previously the
Post Office Tower, is a tall cylindrical building. The primary purpose of
the tower was to support the microwave aerials then used to carry
telecommunications traffic from London to the rest of the country.
Construction began in June 1961 and the tower was officially opened to the
public in 1966. There was a slowly rotating restaurant on the 34th
floor. A suspected IRA bomb exploded in the roof of the men's toilets at
the Top of the Tower in 1971 and the restaurant subsequently closed to the
public for security reasons.
Today, the building remains
closed to the public. The tower's revolving restaurant has been
re-opened, but is now used by BT only for corporate events and promotions |
