All along the telegraph

[Bob Michaels]

Trailer City - Winter Garden FL

Mississippi HW#49 just across the river from Helena Arkansas

Not content with just having a plastic Jesus on his dashboard ............. Casselberry FL

 

[Sparrow]

Well it's what I call them but then I was having a conversation with a neighbour of similar age recently, both of us bemoaning the fact that so many terms and expressions of our youth are no longer used. So while it was common years ago I may be the only one still using it!

... no they are still telegraph-poles, and so is the wireless

 

[Michael Markey]

"Telegraph pole"s is funny to my US ear, is that common in the UK, rather than "telephone" or the more common "utility" poles?

They are always referred to as telegraph poles .
Utility is a fairly recent word in the UK (I would suggest).
Only applied to the companies who supply a particular service .

Come to think of it its only the media who use that ...most people still call them as gas or electricity companies rather than utility companies.

Great shots everyone ...never think of taking anything like that .

 

[Out to Lunch]

Ba Chieu Market, Saigon. Nikon FM3A - Nikkor 2.8/28 - Super Uxi 100.

 

[lawrence]

Delhi. January 2013

Delhi. January 2013

 

[Sparrow]

They are always referred to as telegraph poles .
Utility is a fairly recent word in the UK (I would suggest).
Only applied to the companies who supply a particular service .

Come to think of it its only the media who use that ...most people still call them as gas or electricity companies rather than utility companies.

Great shots everyone ...never think of taking anything like that .

... they've renamed the Gas and Electric Boards then? ... it'll be the War Office next :shakes-head:

 

[Lauffray]

They are always referred to as telegraph poles .

I have to say I never thought about calling them telegraph poles, just poles I guess, maybe electric poles although where I live they're such a mess it can't be just power lines, probably phone lines and who knows what else

 

[f16sunshine]

NW Montana evening light by Adnan W, on Flickr

 

[HuubL]

Kingfisher
Varanasi, India

 

[rwintle]

126 in some kind of Kodak Instamatic (probably), circa 1970-something:


Confluence - Fraser and Thompson Rivers, British Columbia by Richard Wintle, on Flickr

 

[shimokita]

Shimokitazawa golden hour...

 

[Vince Lupo]

Untitled by Vince.Lupo, on Flickr

 

[filmtwit]

They, are watching . . .

 

[Out to Lunch]

If it ain't broke, don't fix it...

 

[Sparrow]

No 32 par Sparrow ... Stewart Mcbride, on ipernity

 

[Pete B]

Pentax 67. 105/2.4.
Acros D76 1:1
Plustek 120
Pete

Scan-140608-0003 by Mr Chombee 67, on Flickr

 

[lawrence]

Death Valley. April 2006

Death Valley. April 2006

 

[oftheherd]

They are always referred to as telegraph poles .
Utility is a fairly recent word in the UK (I would suggest).
Only applied to the companies who supply a particular service .

Come to think of it its only the media who use that ...most people still call them as gas or electricity companies rather than utility companies.

Great shots everyone ...never think of taking anything like that .

I seem to recall that we called them telephone poles or light poles, depending on what we thought they carried. Old as I am, we were long past telegraph poles when I was a kid. It is interesting how many places still have a Telegraph road. The county I live in still has remnants of one, but many parts have been given other names, rewards for political contributors no doubt.

Now where I live, at least most of the neighborhoods of the last 40 years or so, have all infrastructure buried. There are still older houses, or those which weren't built by large contractors, that have exposed wires.

 

[John E Earley]

DSC00630 by jacketch1@verizon.net, on Flickr

 

[John E Earley]