 It was fabricated in Hereford from zinc-galvanised steel, and was erected by British Insulated Callender's Cables (BICC), now known as Balfour Beatty.It was originally commissioned to bring ITV signals (provided by Anglia Television) to East Anglia, including Norfolk, Suffolk and parts of Essex and Cambridgeshire on 405-line VHF, using Channel 11 (Band III).When UHF television came to East Anglia, main transmitters were commissioned at Tacolneston, near Norwich and Sudbury, near Colchester.