On 27th Mar 2023 1:51pm, NeilsYard said:
And another cracker from the collection of M.Tom's shared by Nicola Smith on FB. Pre A45 this is where the island is by the airport today -
Interesting that even in those days, the infrastructure needed to expand, presumably because the population was growing - or maybe just the advance of technology. You can clearly see that the original telephone poles had a mere 6 arms, each with 4 insulators. Then, expander brackets have been added at the ends of those wooden arms, and presumably later, another 3 arms, each with 8 insulators, have been added lower down. Thus, the number of telephone lines has been trebled from the original capacity.
