Title: Photographs With Telegraph Poles In Them
Description: Also Discussion Of Telegraph Poles
Davey B - November 21, 2009 02:49 PM (GMT)
superjudge - November 21, 2009 02:58 PM (GMT)
Davey B - November 21, 2009 03:08 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (superjudge @ Nov 22 2009, 02:58 AM) |
| :mellow: |
Following this generous and enthusiastic response from my fellow forumites further Telegraph Pole photo's will follow next week. :)
Chip Priest - November 21, 2009 03:13 PM (GMT)
I quite like a pylon too, and bus shelters.
marvell78 - November 21, 2009 03:39 PM (GMT)
http://irishrock.org/ipnw/bands/bennyshead.htmldont know how to link these things
but put out a single years ago with telegraph poles. the cover is taken from an old postcard i had of wyoming taken i think around 1920 . picked it up in a chrity shop somewhere
never got it back from the designer either (and why the fuck did he put orange all over it!
Aubrey The Cat - November 21, 2009 05:38 PM (GMT)
Good pics, Davey. :applaud:
And Marvell, now that I've looked.
Fritter - November 22, 2009 05:18 PM (GMT)
A ubiquitous sight in Toronto, but a good one.
Fritter - November 22, 2009 05:20 PM (GMT)
huh - November 22, 2009 05:37 PM (GMT)
Here are three action shots i took a couple of years ago of an old pole being replaced by a new pole.
The wires are suspended from the big cherry picker while the poles are swopped.
Notice the clean metal fittings on the new pole and the dark timber treatment.
Chip Priest - November 22, 2009 05:47 PM (GMT)
worthless recluse - November 22, 2009 07:01 PM (GMT)
Jandek album covers featuring telegraph poles
Graven Image / Glad to Get Away (both 1994)
And there was also the album Telegraph Melts (1985)
Snowy - November 22, 2009 07:33 PM (GMT)
Boothbay Harbor, Maine
Grease For Roads - November 23, 2009 10:53 AM (GMT)
Davey B - November 23, 2009 12:11 PM (GMT)
Davey B - November 23, 2009 12:22 PM (GMT)
I had no idea telegraph poles were so popular. :)
You get some funny looks taking pictures of them though. :unsure:
Acton High Street - November 23, 2009 12:28 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Davey B @ Nov 23 2009, 01:22 PM) |
| I had no idea telegraph poles were so popular. :) |
What do you mean? They're all over the place aren't they? :lol:
huh - November 23, 2009 12:32 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Davey B @ Nov 23 2009, 01:22 PM) |
I had no idea telegraph poles were so popular. :)
You get some funny looks taking pictures of them though. :unsure: |
They bring us the internet to our homes. Hug 'em.
Fritter - November 23, 2009 12:43 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Davey B @ Nov 24 2009, 12:22 AM) |
I had no idea telegraph poles were so popular. :)
You get some funny looks taking pictures of them though. :unsure: |
I didn't realise those were all your photos.
You have inspired to have a dig through my album from Japan, where the poles are excellent (they don't have underground power lines because of earthquakes etc.). No scanner, so these are photos of photos...
Fritter - November 23, 2009 12:43 PM (GMT)
Fritter - November 23, 2009 12:44 PM (GMT)
Davey B - November 23, 2009 01:41 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Chip Priest @ Nov 22 2009, 03:13 AM) |
| I quite like a pylon too, and bus shelters. |
Sigmund Freud could've written an entire book about Chip Priest. :)
Orphistic - November 23, 2009 01:48 PM (GMT)
What about a pic of a nice telephone box. Is that going off thread topic?
Davey B - November 23, 2009 01:50 PM (GMT)
Fritter takes superb photo's. I've just been looking through some of his Flickr pages. He's a visual Mantovani. :applaud:
Davey B - November 23, 2009 01:52 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Orphistic @ Nov 24 2009, 01:48 AM) |
| What about a pic of a nice telephone box. Is that going off thread topic? |
Not sure if I'm ready to start photographing phone boxes just yet. I'm still in my Telegraph Pole Phase. :unsure:
Orphistic - November 23, 2009 01:56 PM (GMT)
I too appreciate Fritter's photos, he has the eye for sure.
rainmaster - November 23, 2009 03:14 PM (GMT)
Oh,
telegraph poles!
Sorry. :ohdear:
stevoid - November 23, 2009 03:39 PM (GMT)
A4 near Bath
Fritter - November 23, 2009 05:02 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Davey B @ Nov 24 2009, 01:50 AM) |
| Fritter takes superb photo's. I've just been looking through some of his Flickr pages. He's a visual Mantovani. :applaud: |
:) Thank you - that's a very nice thing to say indeed.
bert zuttbap - November 23, 2009 10:05 PM (GMT)
Seconded - lovely images.
Davey B - November 30, 2009 12:59 PM (GMT)
delmore - December 1, 2009 12:54 AM (GMT)
Seeing the preceding, I feel embarassed but what the hell.\
Along CN Rail - Bala Subdivision, Toronto etc.
As you may see, CN is phasing out the telegraph in favour of telegnostics.
aux gauche
a ouest
Davey B - December 1, 2009 11:52 AM (GMT)
telegnostics??? :confused:
Do they not believe in God? :unsure:
Divvey - December 1, 2009 11:56 AM (GMT)
Here I am installing my new modem.
Divvey - December 1, 2009 11:57 AM (GMT)
and when were they last used for telegraphs??
Davey B - December 1, 2009 11:59 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Divvey @ Dec 1 2009, 11:56 PM) |
Here I am installing my new modem. |
That's a magnificent but very old photo (from the days before you got your tattoos and eyepatch). :)
Divvey - December 1, 2009 12:00 PM (GMT)
that's why I wear an eyepatch.
those cables are sharp
Davey B - December 1, 2009 01:15 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Divvey @ Dec 1 2009, 11:57 PM) |
| and when were they last used for telegraphs?? |
They are called telegraph poles because they were originally made from old rolled up copies of the Daily Mirror. B)
huh - December 1, 2009 05:25 PM (GMT)
Daily Mirror.
Parade of Trade Union Banners, Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival, Dorset, July 2005
Strange (but good) to see left-wing stuff in the countryside.
Fritter - December 1, 2009 07:59 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Divvey @ Dec 1 2009, 11:57 PM) |
| and when were they last used for telegraphs?? |
Liverpool, 1983,
apparently.
Starsky-Tandoori - December 2, 2009 01:52 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Davey B @ Nov 24 2009, 01:41 AM) |
| QUOTE (Chip Priest @ Nov 22 2009, 03:13 AM) | | I quite like a pylon too, and bus shelters. |
Sigmund Freud could've written an entire book about Chip Priest. :)
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Ha, you can talk! :lol:
