amazingly there's a little street which you can walk down which takes you right under the BT Tower.

the street is full of survellance cameras of course, but should also be full of photographers !

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reflected in the building next to it:

the tower is so completely skinny (especially that base bit) and seems even more so when viewed from this angle. it's sort of locked in to the ground underneath apparently, but i'm glad i didn't take this photo before i went up !