Pylon of the Month
All about electricity pylons and transmission networks
Category: Pylons
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This month's pylon comes from Kennington just outside Oxford and for reasons that will become obvious, I took it myself very recently. It is very easy to find, being a few hundred metres from Sandford Lock on the Thames on the Sustrans cycle path from Abingdon to Oxford. But the main reason I chose this pylon…
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This month's pylon comes from a fan of the website in Somerset and was taken almost exactly a year ago during the floods that affected Somerset in May 2012. As the summer has started with much better weather so far (at least in Oxfordshire where I'm based) it seemed a good time to remind pylon…
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This month's pylon comes to you from the M5 motorway. It follows in the fine tradition of pylon photos taken whilst travelling, with the earliest example (from July 2009) being this one on the M6 motorway. The fan of the website who submitted this month's photo said: This was photographed from the M5 whilst coming…
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Happy New Year to Pylon of the Month fans everywhere. After a busy festive season, January slipped away and so here is the first offering of 2013. The picture was sent in by a fan of the website and I could hardly refuse to feature it when the email had this to say: This tower's…
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Sometimes, a month passes so quickly that I never get around to posting a new pylon. As a result I often get e-mails reminding me to update the blog (really I do; you know who you are…..). Looking back through the archives, however, I was shocked to see that there has never been a December…
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This month's Pylon is different for all kinds of reasons as I am sure all but the most unobservant of readers will have already have spotted. After quite a few years of real pylons that you could actually go and visit if you were so inclined, that might prove more diffcult this month. I have…
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After a break for the month of August, Pylon of the Month returns for the new academic year. This month's pylon is the blogging equivalent of the traditional "What I did on my Summer Holidays" essay that marks the return to school for so many pupils. It is located on the Pelion peninsula in Greece…
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This month, I thought it only appropriate to choose an Olympic pylon in recognition of the London Olympics. If you are looking at the picture and wondering what makes this an Olympic pylon then you need to know where it is located in order to make the link. The photo is taken over the River…
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I have a backlog of pylon pictures sent in by fans from all over the world. I try to mix them up with pylon pictures from the UK so that the blog doesn't lose touch with its roots, but as soon as this image arrived in my inbox I knew it had to be the…
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I've been meaning to feature a pylon like this one ever since reading Alan de Botton's splendid book 'The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work'. It has a chapter on electricity transmission and pylons and in it, he has this to say about pylons: "In different species, I noted varieties of modesty or arrogance, honesty or…
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