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Telegraph Poles can be found in the loneliest places.
 
Telegraph Pole in Cerrigydrudion

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These much ignored pieces of rural and urban furniture finally have a website of their own.

This is not the site to visit for technical information pertaining to telegraph poles. You'll find nothing about 10KVa transformers,digital telephone networking or even so much as a single volt.

This is a website celebrating the glorious everyday mundanitude of these simple silent sentinels the world over.

From the simple...
through the space age...
to the hieroglyphics
Simple Telegraph Poles
Interesting Telegraph Poles
Telegraph pole hieroglyphics
Click the photos to go to the gallery pages...

We don't care what the wires contain either. They all carry electricity in some way be it the sparky stuff which boils your kettle, or the thinner stuff with your voice in it when you're on the phone.

Now, before you think they're just dull sticks with wires, take a look at Cerrigydrudion High Street below. For the second picture we popped over to a parallel universe where electricity hasn't been invented.

Cerrigydrudion High Street

 

Picture 1 :

Our Universe, where telegraph poles flourish in total biodiversity. (N.B. In this universe Wrexham are an under-performing non-league, football team)

 

 

Picture 2:

Cerrigydrudion in a parallel universe
(N.B. Wrexham 4 times Champions of Europe)

Cerrigydrudion High Street (2)
Apart from the football differences, I prefer our universe version of Cerrigyrdudion with all its aerial clutter. I forgot to say, a pint of Timothy Taylors is 1,550 Euros in the parallel White Lion.

Whence they came...

Telegraph Pole Farm in Orkney Isles
A telegraph pole farm in the Orkney Isles.


The Orkney Isles are the source of most of the UK's telegraph poles. Telegraph Pole Farming is a mainstay of the economy in these harsh northern isles. The posts seen here are nearly ready for harvesting. Every autumn, migrant workers from Eastern Europe work night and day picking only the tallest, creosotey poles with the most insulator fruit.



The Telegraph Pole Appreciation Society is run by Martin Evans who is also the founder of the Welsh Space Agency and B5105.com plus other numerous whimsical wastes of time.