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 Tolsford Hill BT Tower | |
  Tolsford Hill BT Tower (Kent) | |
| Location | Folkestone,Kent |
|---|---|
| Coordinates | 51°06′27″N1°05′05″E / 51.1075°N 1.084722°E /51.1075; 1.084722 |
| Grid reference | TR1591038829 |
| Built | 1975 |
Tolsford Hill BT Tower is a telecommunication tower built of reinforced concrete atTolsford Hill on theNorth Downs nearFolkestone,Kent. Tolsford Hill BT Tower is one of the fewBritish towers built of reinforced concrete and is 67.36 metres ( 221 ft) high.
From 1954 television was transferred to France by a link fromLenham to Swingate toCassel.
Construction of the £80,000 200-ft tower, at Tolsford Hill, began in March 1959.[1] Transmissions would be sent over the English Channel to the RTF tower atFiennes, Pas-de-Calais. The first broadcasts were on Wednesday 1 July 1959. In 1960 it had 273 circuits.
On 27 April 1960 a television transmission was sent across the English Channel of colour television, in 625 lines. This was the system designed byHenri de France. The French would adopt 625 lines, to begin in 1963.[2]
By the late 1960s, two more communication sites were built atFlimwell, in East Sussex, and Fairseat, nearStansted, Kent, for transmission to London. In 1822Thomas Frederick Colby had put lighthouses at these same points across the English Channel.
Construction of a new £350,000 210-ft tower began in December 1973, to begin operation by 1975. It would carry 3,600 circuits.[3] It was built by Holst & Co (becameNorwest Holst).[4]
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