The Stokenchurch BT Tower visible on the M40 between Oxford and London is strange site. As a young child the tower used to be taller than it is today before the removal of a large upper portion containing an extensive metal superstructure.
Later on in life when I became interested in abandoned sites and anything cold war related I learned of the purpose of the Stokenchurch Tower and how it formed part of the Backbone relay towers.
More information can be found here:-
SubBrit
I contacted BT to see if it was possible to arrange a tour with SubBrit but I was sadly declined.
Still it was possible to get these photos without trespassing. A main road runs close to the tower and you can get quite close to the perimeter.
A good friend of mine enjoys film making in a deliberately B movie fashion. Frequently using only a handheld basic digital camera and IMovie with all pretensions thrown down the loo. He makes some very funny material which has that tongue in cheek humour which make films like Evil Dead so great and paradoxically so satisfying (just much much shorter).
A few Saturdays ago we wandered off to an old WW2 airfield here:-
RAF Broadwell
Carterton ROC Post
And spent the morning doing a 5 minute short film about me being murdered for not paying two assailants an owed debt of £1.50p. Throughout I wore a burlap sack over my head and was screamed at and hit with crow bar. We had great fun! Especially when cars drove past and concerned faces peered from windows.
A YouTube link will appear in due course but whilst we were getting ready I took some deliberately high ISO shots of Mark, Darren and Alex wandering off up the old airfield surface. I was indulging my love for the post apocalyptic feel here ~ Welcome to the time of the after ~ . I will be working on more deliberate high ISO’s in due course which I adore. For now, it was good to take a photo which is technically lazy and requiring no skill whatsoever yet which said everything I could possibly want.
