Steve Kidd's Diary: c.1983 Visit to Emley Moor transmitter mast
Back in the 1980s I went to work down t'pit (at Kellingley Colliery). Because I used words with more than two syllables they sent me to college. I squandered my time at Doncaster, and for that I am sorry, to all those people within the system who I didn't repay with the respect they may have deserved, and especially my class-mates, who I still think of very fondly.
Anyhoo, I did blag my way up the tallest free standing structure in the country - it couldn't happen now, but I wrote a nice letter saying I was doing something to do with media studies, and took 'em a box of chocolates and before you know it we were riding that little rack and pinion seven person elevator up the inside of the tower - It was like being back at the pit again. Now the guy I took with me was the brother of one of the lads at work - was his name Andy? Jeez, it was 40 years ago. Modern phones take better pictures of course nowadays (see the last piccy), I do believe the windows were tinted and these all have far more archive than artistic value. They were taken on SupaSnaps slide transparencies.
My overarching thoughts were how similar in dimensions it is to the Eiffel Tower
| Emley | Eiffel
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| Tallest freestanding structure in their country
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| Height to tip | 1,084 feet (330 m) | 330 m (1,083 ft)
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| Height to view | 1,083 feet (330 m) | 276 m (906 ft)
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| Lift Journey | 7 minutes | c 8 minutes
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| Foundations | 20 feet (6 m)!! | 22 m (72 ft) on the Seine side
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Apparently it moves 5 metres around when it's windy!
Emley Moor 01
Emley Moor, up and down
Emley Moor 03 shaft
Emley Moor 04 Control Room
Emley Moor 05 Control Room
Emley Moor 06 Control Room I loved that jumper, thanks Mary. xxx
Emley Moor 07 Control Room
Emley Moor 08 W Lockwood Viaduct CHECK
Emley Moor 10
Emley Moor 11 NW Jagger Lane
Emley Moor 12
Emley Moor 15
Emley Moor 16 Emley
Emley Moor 17 Emley
Emley Moor 20 West to Oakroyd A very clumsy stitching togetrher of two ropey images
Emley Moor 20
Emley Moor 21
Emley Moor 22 ESE Moorhead Farm
Emley Moor 23
Emley Moor Transmitter from Pontefract Horsefair Flats I do not know if this was contempraneous with all the others
Emley Moor Transmitter 10th October 2024 Taken with a Honor telephone, and it is half the file size of the old ones!
You know it is only when finishing this off I can begin to imagine how utterly priveleged I was. Thankyou to everybody who is kind , and proud of what they do.