Pylon of the Month
All about electricity pylons and transmission networks
Category: Literature
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As June is now with us and summer really does seem to be 'icumen in' I was drawn to this rather bucolic photograph submitted by a fan of the website. It is just off the A38 (aka the Devon Expressway) between Exeter and Okehampton in Devon and so would be an ideal stop off for pylon fans heading to the…
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As December looms, I thought I would mention a book that pylon fans could add to their Christmas list. The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work by Alain De Botton has a whole chapter (called Transmission Engineering) dedicated to pylons. The author and a member of the Pylon Appreciation Society follow a pylon line from the nuclear power plant in Dungeness…
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Thank you to Johnathan Glancey in the Guardian for bringing my attention to poetry about pylons in this article about 'The gaunt skeletal beauty of pylons'. Knowing that well known poets like Stephen Spender and Cecil Day-Lewis were inspired by pylons somehow makes this whole blog seem a little less geeky. In fact, according to this glossary…
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