Heaton Park BT Tower

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Heaton Park BT Tower (left)

Heaton Park BT Tower is a telecommunication tower built of reinforced concrete at Heaton Park, 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.

Heaton Park is notable because it provided a large portion of the trunk comms capacity into Manchester and there is quite of lot of primary and secondary source written history about the architecture of these 'Chilterns' type concrete towers, which are all significant local landmarks and cultural icons.^{[citation needed]}

Interestingly, an urban myth when the Tower was being built was that people believed it's purpose was to detect a possible Soviet Nuclear attack during the Cold War. However, there is no legitimacy into this claim, but nonetheless has gone down in local folklore.