Willis Building, London - Tower and Crane

[Oxygen Thief]

Visited with Stumpy and Clayderman.

Stupid and awesome at the same time. We made it up the tower then split, me and stumpy went up the big crane and it was stupid with 60mph gusts - the safety alarms were going off randomly. The best views ever, including close ups of the Norman Foster 'Gherkin' building, Tower 42, Tower Bridge, St pauls, London Eye, HMS Belfast, Lloyds insurance etc etc.

On the way down, the empty site had turned into a live site, with workmen in the stairwell. So we had to climb all the way back up to pick up some hi-vis.

Typing this report whilst eating the post-explore chicken kebab.

Heres some pictures, due to the wind theres a lot of blurry ones...

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b266/cjwinternet/Willis%20Building/IMG_5914.jpg

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[clayderman]

Jesus what a riot this was, high police presence, higher cranes and even higher winds :eek: anyway OT's report pretty much covers it, so here's my photos :) Top night, cheers guys.

[clayderman]

These were the cranes,stumpy's n OT's was the one in the middle, mine was the one on the left :p