debsylicious! » family http://debsylicious.com what's catching my eye ... and other fabulous stuff Sat, 26 Nov 2011 04:45:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 poles apart .. the end of an era is nigh http://debsylicious.com/2011/02/08/poles-apart-the-end-of-an-era-is-nigh/ http://debsylicious.com/2011/02/08/poles-apart-the-end-of-an-era-is-nigh/#comments Tue, 08 Feb 2011 14:43:12 +0000 debsylee http://debsylicious.com/?p=923 I always get a bit nostalgic when I see old telegraph poles, mainly because many years ago my dad was a GPO engineer who used to have to climb them on a daily basis .. And when he met my mum (who was an operator in the local telephone exchange) he would call her from a handset at the top of said pole! Now that’s what I call romantic.

And although they’re being phased out you’ll still see plenty of overland wiring around and about in rural Lincolnshire …

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