Pylon of the Month
All about electricity pylons and transmission networks
Category: Travel
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The usual 'too much to do and not enough time to do it' at the start of a new academic year almost made September another month without a pylon. Then the picture above popped up on @pylonofthmonth with 'Contender for September' as the byline. That spurred me into action (well sort of – it's now over…
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This month's pylon comes from Salisbury Plain. It was sent in by a fan of the website who had this to say: Driving across Wiltshire about the time of the summer solstice, I could imagine these flat fields being used to grow wheat thousands of years ago. These big bales are reminiscent of standing stones near…
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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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I get quite a lot of emails from fans of the website with pictures of pylons attached, but the one that led to April's Pylon of the Month started very well: Thank you for maintaining that wonderful publication that is Pylon of the Month. Needless to say, I warmed to the sender immediately…
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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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With a new school year starting, getting a pylon up on the blog for September is always tough and with the middle of the month looming, I'd begun to think that it might not happen. Yesterday, however, I had a conversation with one of the students I teach and they mentioned that on the way…
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Finally, here is another pylon and if I don't get better at making time to keep updating this blog, I might have to call it Pylon of the (every other) Month. Anyway, July brings another pylon sent in by a fan of the blog: I enjoy your blog and thought you might be interested in…
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A long time ago in a galaxy far far away, some photons of light set out on a journey towards earth. They arrived recently and had the luck to be captured by @Skullet who posted a picture on twitter which caught my eye because of the pylon. The galaxy concerned is Andromeda and you can…
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The last two months have been up close and personal with my holiday pylons and so for October, I have gone for a more picturesque sunset pylonscape. I quite like 'pylonscape' as a portmanteau word, although a quick Google search reveals that I'm not the first to use it, with John Sandell photography getting there…
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With the start of a new academic year, I have been pressed for time and if a few more days had passed, I might not have got round to posting a pylon for September. Then I was contacted by the BBC and asked to appear on the Mark Forrest show (about the decision to…
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