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Wotton-under-Edge BT Tower, Gloucestershire Climbed in the excellent company of @WhoDerpsWins The tower is just over 76m, or 250 ft, high. As with the other towers built in this style, it's made of reinforced concrete known as the 'Chilterns' design. As far as I can tell, it started operating...

The History The 300ft mast itself is of course a utilitarian structure without much in the way of design or character. However, it was evidently built for radio signal I am going to speculate somewhere between the 1960s-80s and has seen recent use by Essex Police who apparenty rent it out to a...

Autovon Exchange Mast – Kesgrave – October 2020 The History There’s not much history to be found regarding the actual mast itself. What I can tell you is that it is 160 feet tall and it was used for transmitting messages under the name Autovon. Autovon, stands for Automatic Voice Network, it...

Hi, Dan from Delta Foxtrot Golf Exploration here. I don't know if this seems like an odd thread, but here goes. There's some mobile phone masts near a road that I noticed some time ago while driving on the back way home from work. The facility is based on Monks Park Lane near Birchley Heath...

History: The Mendlesam Transmitting Station, just outside Stowmarket in Suffolk, first entered service in October 1959 and provided a signal for over 2 million homes in the Eastern counties. It was at this time that the Mendlesham mast became the tallest structure in Europe, and kept the title...

Heres a request and a post to bait those who seek new challenges to get something I am interested in investigated close up. I have found a site which seems to have no reference here or in Subbrit. Its an estimated 200ft high redundant radio mast which looks to have a ladder all the way up...

Saw this a few days ago from @Thatsnotme91 's post on the high stuff forum decided to send tower solo and mission success #confetti #yay sent for sunset around 7pm climb up was painful climb down too :banghead I know as far as the previous post did, All pictures are taken on my iphone 6s Im...

This 300 ft mast in high garrett Essex is owned by Essex Police, but according to their list of assets is rented out. It is in a corner of the site of the old High Garrett POW camp, occupied by the US military after the war as a microwave radio station, when presumably this mast was built. all...

High Garrett Radio Mast A vertical walk in the country side accompanied by Essex constabulary for a bit of company History Given that it is just a radio mast climb, there isn’t a huge amount of history regarding the structure. However, it the mast stands on the grounds of High Garrett POW camp...

Saw this radio mast and it looked interesting from a distance so my friend and I decided to cycle over to try and climb it. I had never climbed anything before so decided to start with this radio mast as it is in the middle of nowhere, so the chances of being caught are practically zero (Only...

Reporting on a telecoms mast in the village of Chhomrong. Lying at an altitude of 2170m this is the highest permanently inhabited village in Annapurna region of Nepal. Fair to say that the tourbus will never get here – it’s a two day walk from the nearest road to this village. From Chhomrong...

Every morning I wake up to the site of Truliegh hill and on top I see the 3 towers poking up into the sky, and every morning I think imagine the views. So... We climbed it. Here are the photos and a description of the expedition. As you get the base of the tower in sight you wonder what's in...

Everything started over two years ago, I was talking to one of my friends who mentioned a big radio mast that is not far from his summer house and he was curious if I ever tried to climb it. To be perfectly honest I didn't even know that the mast even exists and lucky enough it's located only...

There are several interesting surviving features at this former radar station. A 350 foot radar mast, a remnant of WW2's Chain Home network provided an early warning of Luftflotte invasions into central England and is now used for training RAF aerial erectors. Four tropospheric scatter...

RAF Barkway Mast Royal Air Force Station Barkway or RAF Barkway was one the smallest RAF stations in the UK. It was a Communications Station and was a small collection of buildings and a large radio mast. It was originally opened as a monitor station on 22 June 1942 for the Gee...