Emley Moor Tower
Thursday, 9th February 2006 by James Turnbull
The Emley Moor Tower (formerly the NTL Tower) is a transmitting station in an area of moorland near Huddersfield in West Yorkshire. It's Britain's tallest free-standing structure at 330m and casts no shadow in this excellent aerial shot.
Thanks: Jonathan Rawle
one of the best tower shots there is. ever.
Ever!
Great ‘ground level’ shot here and loads of nerdy info. Incidently – it is England’s tallest ,by far, listed building (to all our colonial cousins – ‘listed’ means a protected building of great architectural and historical interest )
http://tx.mb21.co.uk/emley/index.asp
no shadow? must be in the UK 😉
Niiiiice shot. But tell me, why [I]did[/I] they build a giant concrete needle in the middle of the countryside?
The mast is needed to broadcast TV and radio to the surrounding area, in particular the West Yorkshire conurbation including the cities of Bradford and Leeds. Originally there was an ordinary mast on the site, but it’s so exposed up on the hill that a build-up of ice caused the mast to fall. So the replacement had to be this tower. See the link given above.
I concur, fantastic tower-shot! Great work Jonathan (again!).
Has anyone else noticed that these updated UK shots seem to suffer from quite a lot of threads and hairs hanging around the place?
Well, who’s to say there aren’t large worms roaming the earth?
Jonathan: Ah, cool. I didn’t know ice could do that much damage. But then, Challenger blew up because its o-ring shrank in the low temperature and it wasn’t even freezing.