Pylon of the Month
All about electricity pylons and transmission networks
Category: Technology
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After two pylonless months, July's pylon comes all the way from the hills outside Wellington, New Zealand. The picture was taken looking south with the Makara wind farm in the distance and beyond that the South Island, with the Cook Strait in between. Whenever I think about New Zealand, a couple of things spring to…
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June was busy, so busy that it was a pylonless month, but on a walk in the Chilterns at the start of July this pylon caught my eye and it now has the privilege of being July's Pylon of the Month. It's just outside Great Missenden, a lovely town with many literary links. Roald Dahl…
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September's Pylon of the Month is a bit of a retro photograph that I took myself on a Holga camera which is a "true cult classic of analogue photography" according to this Lomography website. I'm still experimenting with it as you can see from the fact that the image above includes part of the preceding…
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October slipped by without a pylon and November was in grave danger of going the same way until two things happened. One was a comment on the blog asking when the next pylon was going to be posted and the other was a visit to Geneva where I saw this beauty. But it wasn't just…
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This month we have a Scottish pylon from Loch Errochty, a man made freshwater loch in Perth and Kinross. The pylons are on the Beauly to Denny power line which brings power from renewable sources in the north of Scotland to consumers further south. It was (and remains) very controversial and the Herald Scotland reported…
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The month of May passed by without a pylon and so summer is now here rather than 'icumen in'. This month's pylon, however, is looking back to a day in the Alps earlier in the year when a fan of the website took time out to take this picture of a mountain pylon. The angle of the…
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Happy New Year (somewhat belatedly) to pylon fans everywhere! Despite the relatively mild and wet weather as I write this month's post, February seemed the right month for this fantastic picture to feature as Pylon of the Month. It was taken in West Yorkshire just outside Ripponden by Adrian Jackson. As he pointed out…
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This has been a very busy month on the pylon front. As well as making it onto the BBC website (Meet the Pylon Spotters) along with Flash who runs the Pylon Appreciation Society, I have done several interviews on local BBC radio stations about pylons. The reason for this is that the six new T pylons…
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Happy New Year to pylon fans everywhere! This month's pylon(s) comes from South Africa and is yet another another addition to the 'pylon pictures taken out of the window of a moving vehicle' category. I took it in December whilst on a family holiday in South Africa and the pylons can be found near Stellenbosch,…
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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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