Cheese Lane Shot Tower

Brutalist Bristol shot tower tied to the citys lead-shot industry

Cheese Lane Shot Tower is a blunt industrial landmark on Bristol's Floating Harbour, built in 1969 to replace an earlier tower linked to the invention of the shot-tower process. Its concrete form is not pretty in the conventional sense, but it is memorable.

There is no normal public access inside, so this is a look-and-move-on sight. Still, it gives the harbour walk an industrial counterweight to museums, bars, and restored warehouses, and it says something useful about Bristol's manufacturing past.

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