Agent Lavender: The Flight of Harold Wilson

Apparently reading Agent Lavender is now part of the Harold Wilson meme subculture.

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A combination of Billy Butlin's lease running out and the Angry Brigade setting off a bomb.
I always smile when I think of the PO/BT Tower. It was an official top secret, it could only be referred to as 'Location 23' during Duncan Campbell's trial for example, and it's location was secret. This was despite the fact that it appeared on OS Maps and was in the 1984 edition of a London A-Z, never mind it was for many years the tallest building in London and had a public resturant on the top. Or that it was publicly opened by the Prime Minister. :closedeyesmile:

What did we tell the Soviet diplomats who ate in the resturant? That they were dining on top of nothing? XD
 

James G

Gone Fishin'
A combination of Billy Butlin's lease running out and the Angry Brigade setting off a bomb.
I always smile when I think of the PO/BT Tower. It was an official top secret, it could only be referred to as 'Location 23' during Duncan Campbell's trial for example, and it's location was secret. This was despite the fact that it appeared on OS Maps and was in the 1984 edition of a London A-Z, never mind it was for many years the tallest building in London and had a public resturant on the top. Or that it was publicly opened by the Prime Minister. :closedeyesmile:

What did we tell the Soviet diplomats who ate in the resturant? That they were dining on top of nothing? XD

I read about this issue with the Post Office Tower the other day. I still can't believe it is true! It's just stupidity multiplied by stupidity equalling insanity... or just officialdom in action.
 
It is possibly the silliest Official Secret. I can understand making what goes on inside the Tower secret but making its location secret even though anyone who looks in the right direction can see it, the public can visit it and it is on maps is plain daft.

There was probably just some blanket instruction to make everything involved in government communications secret. I'll bet at the time nobody knew it would make the location of the PO Tower secret. I think also that a lot of things stay secret well beyond their sell-by date because simply noone gets around to lifting the secrecy, or remembers about it.
 
I was quite inspired this morning whilst I was doing the Southwark Park Run.

If people are interested, we may release the montage and individual panels as posters via Sea Lion Press.

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Not a bad idea

Bought the e-book recently and rolled around the floor laughing all over again. Will have to work out how to lend it to middle daughter who teaches modern history and politics. It will help her appreciate just how weird the 1970s were.

No doubt she will do the same for some as yet unwritten AH story of the current decade.
 
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