A very tall mobile communications mast in Hanham?

Image: © Neil Owen Taken: 23 Feb 2021

This tall structure stands far above the rooftops, high on Hanham Mount. It may look like a communications mast but it is 38m (80') tall and occupies a prominent position in the landscape. It is in fact the memorial beacon, dedicated to the many persecuted Baptists who lived in the more intolerant times of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Close by is the site where John Wesley began his unrepentant open-air sermons to the masses, thus founding the Methodist movement. The original beacon was built in the 1950s as part of the activities marking the Festival of Britain. It too was a very tall and somewhat spindly erection, but was later declared unsafe. This one (an even taller version) was put up in 2008. It emits a green light at night.

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