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Steve Murnan. Pur Down BT Tower was built in 1970 and is located on a hill (Purdown) just north of the city centre of Bristol, in the Lockleaze suburb, UK (National Grid Reference: ST610764) Lat N51 29.05 Lon W2 33.88. It is one of twelve reinforced concrete towers owned by BT in the UK. It is used mainly for point-to-point microwave links and forms part of the British Telecom microwave network. It is one of the few telecommunication towers in the UK built of reinforced concrete.The tower is 58M tall to the top gallery with the lattice structure on the gallery adding an additional 8M
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