BT Tower Heaton Park, Manchester Urbex
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- The Heaton Park BT Tower is a 238-foot tall concrete telecommunications tower located next to Heaton Park Reservoir in Manchester, England. Heaton Park BT Tower is one of the few British towers built of reinforced concrete, and one of seven BT towers of the 'Chilterns' design
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This Site is also not Abandoned and still used to house transmitters mast's for 3 mobile and EE And Site Like This Emmit High EMF non ionising radiation and can be very dangerous to you if you don't know what you're doing !
During the Cold War, the British government proposed a communications network that (it was hoped) would survive a nuclear attack. Radio stations (including the Heaton Park Tower) would maintain national and international communications before, during and after a nuclear emergency, transmitting microwave radio signals in a network known as Backbone. Spurs feeding into the network were provided at three locations: London, Manchester (Heaton Park Tower) and Birmingham Whether or not the Backbone network plan was realized is classified, but HM Government denied in Parliament that the tower's function was secretive
Beside the tower was a monitoring station (one of hundreds across the country) to record the blast and fallout in the event of a nuclear war. The station provided for three men from the Royal Observer Corps (ROC) to live underground whilst recording what was happening above ground in the event of a nuclear strike.
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Cool explore, I used to go past a BT tower regularly years ago, similar in design, near Bosley crossroads. Always wondered what they were like inside.👍
Ideal place to put an antenna for a pirate station ...
It's weird to imagine these towers are still in use, but even though they are fancy to see inside, still it's basic, lol.
Did some digging and that tower looked epic back in the day when it still had the old microwave horns on top! Kinda like the old AT&T "Long Lines" setup they had over here in the states only way cooler looking. Can't believe all the long distance calls for like an entire city used to get beamed through those things before they'd get routed through those big copper trunks to people's phones. >.
Nice to see you up in my neck of the woods, the wind farm up on the big hill ( knowl hill ) is not far from where I live, Google Healey Dell nature reserve, there are some interesting explores, the ammunitions factory, the asbestos factory, the railway viaduct , air raid shelters, lookout gunposts , all close to each other, and there is some great wildlife, I hope you'll check it all out next time you're in the area, I'll gladly be your guide, loving the tunes, thanks for letting me enjoy these mad missions ,
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It was bombproof, that’s why the door so epic. It was made during the Cold War so it was Made to deal with a nuclear explosion. There’s a load of them they links London to Edinburgh. I think they were called chain-link.
Sorry backbone not chain-link
@@jonathanwright609 not all of them are bomb proof only the style one i went uo was the other ones are not as thay have glass windows Birmingham bt towee has glass window also
Bit high that folk 😂 👍👍
You would love it at the top Chris haha ian can fly his kite off the top haha
The pile of round things on the floor are microwave antennas. Used for high bandwidth comms links between towers and other tall buildings. Was the way to flip phone and data traffic quickly around the country from tower to tower until emerging at the "last mile" exchange. All done with IP these days
Drove past this many times! These were built so sturdy so that they could (theoretically) withstand nuclear attacks and maintain communications.
Are the antenna safe to go near while powered up.? I guess you're not microwaved 😮
I wouldn't like to say there are but main thing i was always behind the microwave trassmitters never in front of them i also did not want to cause disruption to there services by looking but risk is high if you dont have a clue what you are doing much id give advice of 😁
kirbz i love urbexing but i can never seem to get any good locations i was wondering how you find some of your urbexses
Get down with the kids. No, seriously, make a friend of your local homeless and you'll be more rewarded than they are. That doesn't sound right but I hope you know what I mean.
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Now do Emley Moor, would be a dream but seems to be kinda impossible 🫠
What a awesome view
Your videos are qwite mad aswell buddy just had a look at your content
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Cool, I am From Whitefield, Grew up in Heaton park in the 60s , Touched the tower after climbing fences when I was about 9yrs old Lol, Never seen inside, Wow like your vid to see inside and the view's spot on.💯👍
That camera with the wiper has a full on dslr camera in it full body with len. Thats why the cctc camera case is so large.
IV been told some old camera did have dslr cameras in them is mad to think that's how CCTV was years ago haha
It won't be digital, I used a similar CCTV camera back in the same era, for scanning images, the digitising happened on a seperate computer.
The camera output was like an analogue composite video or RGB?
Well done lads👍👍👍👍