Welcome back – after a few months of suspended animation following the shutdown of Typepad, I’ve finally got around to bringing Pylon of the Month back to life on WordPress! Most of the previous posts seem to have survived the migration, although a few images from earlier years are no longer there.
We start 2026 with a photograph snapped in the early hours of New Year’s Day as I walked back home after a very enjoyable evening of live music at the Isis Tavern. It’s a 400 kV pylon right next to the cycle path near Kennington south of Oxford and has featured on the blog before. It’s the one I usually mention if I’m asked for my favourite pylon as I was for this article, Together in electric dreams: The poetic beauty of pylons by Lucy Kenningham back in 2024. She made the journey to visit it, but ended up “cursing the man who had inspired this mad mission – hours of cycling through torrential rain to see a transmission tower“. I think that is enough for now, but with the blog now back online pylon fans everywhere can breathe a sigh of relief and look forward to plenty more pylon action in 2026.
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