As if the new ITV series “Endeavour” isn’t already enough for murder mystery and Inspector Morse buffs – this week there was an added dimension in that episode #3 featured a telegraph pole. Not only was this pole key to solving the dastardly crime, but it’s constituent ceramic insulators were provided by this very society. Also the expertise [sic] that helped their props dept reconstruct a GPO pole of the era. Relying on me for expert advice will probably lead to a flurry of emails about anachronistic technology from real ex-GPO types. Serve them right for asking me.
‘Twas some months ago we posted them a collection of mostly intact double-groove insulators. And a couple of months later when we received back a parcel of completely different and largely broken ones. They had, it seem, edged their bets and borrowed some off Jack Nesbit too (British Insulators website), returning me his lot by mistake. Only they got knacked in the post. Oh what a tangled web we weave.
Anyway, me and Mrs TPAS borrowed a telly for the event, sat down with a box of past-their-sell-by Maltesers and got ourselves enthralled in the murky world of murder on the telly. If you want to spoil things and see just whodunnit, click right HERE. I said it was going to be him all along – shifty looking so and so.
You can watch it on the ITV iPlayer thingy here. It’s available for the next 23 days.