WINTER HILL TV MAST

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can't quite remember how to post videos, if this does not work could someone put me right.

Winter Hill

Thanks Terry....what was wrong?

Anne, you had the wiganword.co.ukcommunicate in along with the Youtube link.

[ur=https://youtu.be/4FPzfQxcIpM]Winter Hill[/url]

I have missed the l out of the first url at the beginning to show you what you needed.

Another film about Winter Hill, which is a bit weird

https://youtu.be/-54F60ZxeB8

Anne I have just noticed there is a more in-depth tutorial at the top of the page for linking and photos.

Terry.... think I have seen that info before but still I forget if I haven't posted for a while.
TTS.... the glider part is exactly what hubby myself and others did way back in the late 50s early 60s. The old latticework mast was in use at that time. Model glider was a design called LuLu.🤣🤣🤣

Today, just for a change, it's pouring down, and yet looking at the pictures of Winter Hill it's hard to remember that this time last year the firefighters were backling with high temperatures made worse with the heat of those fires.

Isn’t it. “Wigan’s” tv mast?

Some more Winter hill videos

https://www.youtube.com/user/singaporemick/search?query=winter+hill

If I had been a member of the IRA, it the Winter hill mast that I would have targeted, because if that went down it would have upset a lot people in the north west of England>

I wonder if the people of Annan know that George was murdered up there.

A heading in the ‘Bolton Chronicle’ on Saturday, 10 November 1838 stated: Horrible murder at Belmont

George Henderson, a young Scottish packman was employed as a traveller by a Mr John Blackburn.He moved around the neighbourhood taking orders; selling, delivering, and collecting payment.He visited Blackburn regularly to report to his employers.

On Thursday 8 November he stayed at the ‘Old Cock Inn’, Blackrod, a village on the turnpike road, from Manchester to Preston.An old track from Blackrod led down to Anderton Hall, Horwich then across to the Rivington Pike road, near Winter Hill and joining the regular old packhorse route to Blackburn by way of Belmont, a moorland village on the Bolton to Preston road.

Henderson left Blackrod about 8.0 am on the Friday morning but he never arrived in Blackburn.He was found at 13.45 pm lying near the summit of Winter Hill, by the road descending to Belmont.He had been shot through the head and he died at 2.30 pm in a nearby cottage.The motive was presumed to be robbery and as a result of the evidence, a local man James Whittle, was arrested.Following the inquest he was sent for trial - and acquitted, the murder remaining unsolved - at the Lancashire Assizes at Liverpool in 1839.By the T.V. mast on Winter Hill, a memorial known as Scotsman’s Stump was erected, to mark the spot where George Henderson was shot.It bears the following inscription:-

“To the memory of George Henderson, traveller, native of Annan, Dumfries-shire, who was brutally murdered on Rivington Moor at Noonday, November 9th1838 in the 20th year of his age.

I have often wondered as to the diameter of red warning lights that are fitted to the Winter Hill Mast. At night these lights can be seen from many miles away. Anyone any ideas?

I don't think that physically they are that big, but they are bright, and in 2006 they replaced the Aircraft Warning Lights on the Winter Hill Mast, with lights which were a lot brighter

http://www.sziget.com/en/content/obstruction-lighting

Thanks for the info Tommy, I just had it in the back of my mind that, as they are so visible they must be of a large diameter. Never gave it a thought as to being small and very bright.

Those are big lights they are now LEDs which make them much brighter, as Tommy says they changed over in 2006. They look at least 4 to 5 feet in diameter.

''I've sin it wi me own eyes''

I have known three people from Annan. My great aunt Marie who married an Annan gent then went to live in Annan and the owner of the computer shop next to the Griffin pub Wigan lane.

They would indeed be big lights at four or five feet in diameter,Terry.

The only problem being, them aint lights.

Are they not?

Nope.

Well what then.

Parabolic Reflector Antenna

Oh right I thought they were the lights.