To become a member of our most esteemed and august society may be considered an honour. Membership is so exclusive that it is ONLY available to those who have £3 in their paypal account AND are able to click the button that says JOIN NOW. And this last week we were delighted to welcome new member #0739 Pete Gerrard aka “Treebore”.
For Treebore has sent us the wonderful pics you see below. Pete says that in the 1970s he worked for the GPO producing telegraph poles from forest to delivery. He re-joined the industry in the 90’s working across Scandinavia, Russia and the Baltic States, And picture #1, taken in Estonia in 1997, is of a bunch telegraph poles before they knew they were telegraph poles.
The second pic is a stack of blank telegraph poles near Burjholm Sweden awaiting their fate of being shipped to the UK for subsequent fabrication and creosoting.
And finally, a telegraph pole near Lake Lagoda Russia taken in November 1997. Treebore presumes that this being Russia, the missing stay pole has been cut for firewood.
Welcome to the Telegraph Pole Appreciation Society, Treebore. What took you so long?
As always, click the pictures to enlarge them.