The Shot Tower: a monument to British ingenuity! – By Hemantha Yapa Abeywardena Towering into the sky by a brook that carves its own path across a nature reserve in the English county, Middlesex, the canopy of a magnificent structure, gleaming in the spring sunshine, hints at a story of a forgotten industry, waiting to be told. This is a shot tower, a silent sentinel of a bygone era that has been holding its ground, as well as an inexplicable aura, during the passage of time. They, once scattered across Britain in a few locations, were industrial structures that played a key role in the Empire where the Sun never set. The shot towers used to produce lead shot for firearms using molten lead. The choice of location, near a steady flow of water, however, had nothing to do with the dictates of the alignment of lucky stars of the ...

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