Now here’s something to warm your cockles on this wet and wintry August day. The first three of these poles I am familiar with as they are from the A543 Denbigh to Pentrefoelas moors road. They were kindly sent in by regular reader, Welsh Highland Railway volunteer, TPAS member #0449 and all-round good egg, Malcolm Hindes:
Along the fast stretch between Glanygors and Bylchau is a long lonely row of armless poles, nearly all with top-mounted double spindles (the type I usually refer to as “antlers”), some still with insulators.
However the real fun comes further east. Dropping down from Bylchau is a run of good bog-standard 2-arm poles, mostly in excellent condition and complete with insulators. My first photo is of one of these, with a lovely strut, near the bottom of the hill at map ref. SJ 001642, about 3 miles from Denbigh.
The next pole down (second shot) has crossarms at right angles for a spur up a side road (which I suspect is the old road), and alongside that same side road is a real beauty, crossarms at right angles again, double-J spindles, antlers and everything but the kitchen sink.
This next photo is from another GPO pole connoisseur, Graeme Fisher. This double crossbar number from opposite Wollescote Park, Stourbridge. I suspect that Graeme has potential as a rich-source of good pole photos – watch this space. Meanwhile, it would be remiss of us not to give his most interesting website www.drillhalls.org a plug.