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The Post Office Tower (latterly the BT Tower), a near neighbour of Radio 3’s own home, Broadcasting House, and, in its day, an icon of both sixties glamour (that revolving restaurant) and technological progress (that hypermodern shape, all those thrilling antennae), is 49 years old today. It was opened on 8 October 1965 by Prime Minister Harold Wilson and then Minister of Technology Tony Benn.
It’s a thing of beauty to this day and still radiates a rather reassuring, pre-Internet optimism about life and the world (although the restaurant has been closed for years and the world has changed completely). These two pictures of the Tower feature, incidentally, star of TV and radio Nicholas Parsons (top) and the charming War Machine, star of Doctor Who’s 1966 adventure ’Doctor Who and the War Machines’. The newly-completed Tower - playing itself - was a star of the series.
Date liked: 2014/10/24 21:10:02
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