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Mobile Cell Phone Transmitter Mast Health Risk
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Living near a Mobile Cell Phone Transmitter Mast
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My parents have lived in their present home since just before I was born, which was in 1956.
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Its in a beautiful part of southern England, Bournemouth, right on the coast, five minutes from the sea.
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Opposite their house in Seafield Gardens, is the Seafield Road Water Tower, built in the early 1900s.
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Its purpose was to pump water from the lower part of Southbourne and Tuckton to the upper parts.
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A fairly tall, functional and well constructed building.
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It was no longer needed due to a change in water supply in the 1960s, so it was left unused.
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As I remember, in the 1980s the tower was put up for sale by the water company and sold to a private individual, who applied to Bournemouth Council for planning permission to turn it into a private residence
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The application I understand was rejected, the plans refused.
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Some time later, with the very rapid development of mobile phones in the late 1980s, the tower passed into the hands of one of the larger mobile phone companies, who then obtained permission to erect cell phone transmitter masts on the structure. Subsequently, the permissions were extended to include a number of other mobile phone companies.
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Today there are five companies, as follows...........
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VODAFONE
3
T-MOBILE
02
ORANGE
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Each of these companies has various dishes, antenna, transmitters etc, which must add up to a lot of radiation.
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In addition, at one time there were public service transmitters on the top of the tower (for the police), but I’m not sure if this is the case today.
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A neighbour a few doors along from my parent’s had a child a few months after the mobile phone transmitters were first installed. Sadly the little girl was born autistic.
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The parents deeply researched the possibility that the antenna was the cause of this, the wife having been subjected to microwave radiation whilst she was pregnant, thereby damaging the unborn baby. There conclusion was that there was a strong link.
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They tried to get the antenna removed, but the council and the mobile phone companies would have none of it. In the end, because of other health problems, including insomnia, the family sold up and moved to another part of Bournemouth, not in the proximity of a cell phone aerial.
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None of the residents surrounding the tower wanted the antennae installed, but despite numerous objections, they are still there. The tower is encircled by a number of homes on Seafield Road, Tuckton Road, Guildhill Road and Ken Road. All within 500 yards of the transmitters.
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Sleep pattern disorder seems the most common problem, but I seem to remember that there were reports of several brain tumours in this area.
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I lived with my parent’s for a while and I also found my sleep pattern affected, waking most mornings at 3 am for no reason. My mind seemed fully alert and it was always difficult to get back to sleep. Also my parent’s are experiencing the same sleep problem.
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As possibly the oldest residents in Seafield Road for over 50 years my parent’s bought their house many years before the mobile phone transmitters were installed. They did not want them.
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They have never owned a mobile phone, and are very unlikely to ever own one, so why should they and other people in the area be subjected to this continuing health threat?
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