June's Pylon of the Month comes with a splash of colour. The fan of the website who sent it in said: It’s not a very impressive pylon, but I thought it looked nice amid the yellow rapeseed. I beg to disagree with the first part of that sentence! It's a perfectly lovely pylon – small but…

April's Pylon of the Month is one of those in the picture above. It's not like the old newspaper Spot the Ball game where I've chosen one secretly and you've got to guess which one it is and win a prize1. Rather, you can choose your own favourite using whatever metrics you want. I'm going…

Sometimes in February, I just want a reminder of sunnier times to come, but this month's pylon sees me hunkering down with a seasonally appropriate pylon sent in by a fan of the website. He is such a fan that a 2024 calendar he produced to celebrate Yorkshire pylons made the news! Anyway, back to…

Happy New Year to pylon fans everywhere! January's Pylon of the Month is one of a famous pair from Cádiz in Spain. So famous in fact that they have their own Wikipedia page, which has this to say: The Pylons of Cádiz, also known as the Towers of Cádiz, are two 158 m (518 ft)-tall…

  December's Pylon of the Month should be plural – Pylons of the Month. I decided to go back and find all the December posts from previous years and bring them together. The layout is a bit all over the place, which I could presumably fix if I got stuck into a bit of HTML,…

November's Pylon of the Month was sent in by a fellow pylon fan with the comment that:   You’re probably not aware that over the course of this year the National Grid has changed the line of pylons between the Offerton substation and West Boldon in Sunderland / South Tyneside. They are now in the…

Even the most unobservant readers of the blog will have spotted that August's Pylon of the Month is a bit different and I have @moakcarlsson to thank for bringing it to my attention on Twitter. I'll certainly be getting hold of a copy of the book she is currently writing that includes this and other…

As winter starts to recede in the rearview mirror and the skiing season draws to a close, April's Pylon of the Month comes from St. Anton in Austria. The last time an Austrian pylon featured on the blog was back in May 2011. A colleague sent this picture my way in the middle of her…

October's pylon comes via Twitter courtesy of @Cloudwatcher 32 who goes by the Twitter name Liminal Spaces1. It caught my eye for a number of reasons, the first of which is that there has always been a special place on Pylon of the Month for pylons photographed out of the window of a moving vehicle.…

As mid-October came and went, I still hadn't decided on a pylon for the blog when fate intervened and these beauties crossed my path (literally – I was on a short walking holiday with a friend). They can be found close to the village of Coughton just south of Ross-on-Wye. If like me, you are…