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Harold Wilson opens the Post Office Tower

Posted by: Mark Dunton, Posted on: 8 October 2015 - Categories: Communications, Home affairs, The National Archives
Image of the Post Office Tower which dominates the London landscape in the 1960s

The Post Office Tower, The National Archives, CM 22/195 (40) When the Post Office Tower was officially opened on 8 October 1965 by Prime Minister Harold Wilson, it was Britain’s...

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