Having seen that auction photo of the spacex with the mystery space tower, I remembered a favourite model I have sat on the shelf next to me. A 3" GPO Post Office Tower - now renamed something more modern, but an icon of its day in central London. This must have been a commemorative souvenir at the time, but is such a nice little model. Made of perspex or some kind of UPVC, I actually have two, but one has lost the little mast off the top.
Beautiful translucence Wote. Did you put the bases on yourself? The strange tower in the SpacEX picture - could it be lego?
ReplyDeleteNope, thats as it comes. Got a design tm underneath. Its not Lego, deffo a toy though. Ivthought it was Stuttgarts tv tower at first
ReplyDeleteInteresting and unusual. The colour and translucence are eye catching. I've not seen anything similar before, Bill. Could easily pass as a prop for a model sci fi scene :)
ReplyDelete! the Post Office Tower.
ReplyDeleteI'm delighted to see there was a tourist souvenir of this structure which when it opened wasn't on Ordinance Survey maps as it was a military secret. It was always a blight on the locality where it stands.
It is also a stone's throw from where Eisenhower's secret underground London headquarters was in a re purposed deep bore London Transport Underground tunnel, Instead of Express trains on the Northern Line it was office space for US servicemen.
Theres a prominent tower in Liverpool, not nearly as big, but quite iconic. In the 70s it was a restaurant, which slowly rotated giving diners a panoramic view ofvthe city. During the economic downturn in the 80s, it closed and a businessman took it over with the intention of opening a Buck Rogers themed restuarant, with the main deck restructured as a saucer. I applied gor a job as a waiter there and had a good chat with the guy, who showed me the plans. Needless to say, it never materialised and its now offices for local radio
ReplyDeleteSo you would have been Twiki?
DeleteNo, I was Wilma!
DeleteShe's a Flintstone.
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