Pylon of the Month
All about electricity pylons and transmission networks
Category: Pylons
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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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This month's pylon comes from Afganistan and at a height of around 3800m above sea level, I'm pretty certain that the pylon in the background of the picture is the highest pylon to feature on Pylon of the Month. Are there any higher pylons anywhere in the world? Answers in an e-mail to Pylon of…
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Happy New Year to Pylon fans everywhere!! We start 2012 with a Kenyan pylon (not the first to be featured, see October 2009 for the first Kenyan pylon). The wind and rain are rattling against the window as I write this and so after a rather miserable start to the year on the weather front,…
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After all the excitement of September when Pylon of the Month featured on The One Show I have had a busy time and so hence the very delayed publication of a new pylon. Normal service should be resumed in December, so for for all you pylon fans who have contacted me (there have been quite…
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September marks the beginning of the new school year and so with this academic theme in mind I thought that an Oxford pylon would be appropriate. This picture was taken from a bridge over the railway line about a mile or so south of the city centre in Kennington (very near the entrance to the Redbridge…
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Tweet http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js After a break from pylons in July, Pylon of the Month is back again and as summer is with us it is time for the pylon picture taken on my holidays. This year, it comes from Greece and it was taken in the village of Agios Floros just north of Kalamata (famous for its…
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This month we head off to Suffolk, but before I say any more, I thought that I would give you an insight into how this month's pylon came to be chosen. It is actually the first of my own photographs to feature for some time, because I have been inundated with pictures from across the…
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It has been another busy month and I was wondering whether to skip a month (again), but then events took a rather interesting turn when Pylon of the Month was mentioned on the PM programme on BBC Radio 4. The average number of page views per day is about 36, but yesterday (24th May) I…
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This month's sees Pylon of the Month in the southern hemisphere for the first time. A fan of the website from Australia sent this picture with the following information: "Here are a few snaps from a recent road trip from Adelaide, South Australia to Melbourne, Victoria." I use Google Analytics to see where my blog…
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After last month's rock and roll pylon, I decided to head abroad again with this picture submitted by yet another fan of the website. The pylons are in the Arizona Desert near the City of Page ("the center of canyon country") and almost certainly carry electricity away from the coal fired Navajo Generating Station. You can…
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