The Bristol Post has published a contemporary account of Bristol ATC
GD1 A photo of Bristol Lulsgate Tower of the 1960s via Barry Davidson! We hope more Bristolian readers may add to this post now with more photos of any of the towers, external and internal including the staff.
GD1a Peter Hamer sent in this photo taken by his dad in the mid 60s. Peter comments “interesting that the airfield elevation has been overlaid with the apron elevation”
and here is modern tower via Barry Davidson
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The next four photos supplies by Bob Truman who says that the first Lusgate tower was a 17658/40 Fighter Satellite Watch Office followed by a 12779/41 Watch Office for all commands.
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GD7 Embraer ERJ-135ER – G-RJXJ at Bristol in front of the latest tower
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GD9 not the best photo but shows the early civil tower building complex
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atchistory 
Just when did airfields stop having the height AMSL displayed? And why did they have it displayed anyway?
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Did Lulsgate have an earlier tower, yes it did. I did two detachments from Birdlip between 1955 and 1957 The tower at that time was a two story square box with a balcony and was located the junction of the two runways . It was probably a standard wartime control tower.
Lulsgate was notorious for it’s fogs. on one occasion a scheduled flight was coming to land, and the pilot said he could not see the airfield, but
was going to “lineup” on the trees and a church spire that he could see,
all the tower staff were invited to come to the balcony to watch. On the flights first pass, he saw nothing, on the second pass, with all the staff straining to see something, a wing tip passed them about 10 feet in front, the pilot decided to divert to Rhoose
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In 1977 a 707 took off from her to go to Zurich. Some of you may know more than me about it, basically the pilots werent really qualified. They took off with a full load of fuel and actually struck some approach lights on departure. The engineer left the aircraft at Zurich never to return!
Richard, think this is the incident in 1978/79, see http://www.oldjets.net/good-guys-went-bad.html and scan down for “Khan Air” and “The Bristol Cowboy”. – atchistory
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