Curator of GPO-Markers : cast iron telegraph marker posts from the Victorian, Edwardian and Georgian eras, telling the story of pioneering telecomms in the UK.
Watford, Herts
Joined April 2008
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My last post on here ever. I won't implicitly support @elonmusk and his lying, deceitful treachery. He and the deranged orang-utan need to slink off to Mars, and the sooner the better for this world. Absolute scum. Let's get #LastTwitterPost trending!
MyFlickrYear24 Photo #flickr flic.kr/p/2qxYsQp OK, so it HAS been a quiet year, BUT nowhere near as bad as their "stats" suggest. Keep up with the photo hosting, @Flickr, but leave the stats to others! π
Been a while since my last #PostOfTheMonth, (As Musk broke Twitter's API) but... just reported is an Eastern #Telegraph Co post in #Penzance, the first identified in the UK. Google Streetview pic. Anyone in #Penzance, would love a better photo of this one in Alverton Road!
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Well thank you @elonmusk for making a breaking change to your API and not notifying your users. X X (Those aren't kisses; they're me feeling like closing my Twitter, sorry X, account)
What3Words have announced they will no longer provide a free API to convert W3W to Lat/Lng. As such the tool is no longer useful in any way for location-related tasks and I'll withdraw support for it shortly on gpo-markers.derektp.co.uk and eabm.derektp.co.uk
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Help reverse the decline of our charismatic Common Swift through the installation of nest boxes in critical locations across Dorset!
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Any money that you donate up to Β£250 will be double matched (2:1) by the AVIVA Save Our Wild Isles Fund!
Someone asked this via the Contact form on gpo-markers.derektp.co.uk Why ask a hobby telegraph historian if it's OK to commit criminal damage and/or theft? (BTW the contact page even includes a link to the correct OpenReach form, as this is not the first time! π)
Thanks to Anthony851.com on Flickr.com seems that even New Zealand used cast #telegraph #cable #joint #markers! This is in Wellington and they're disappearing there too. (Assume distance would have been on area at top) gpo-markers.derektp.co.uk #PostOfTheMonth
.@dean4watford I've responded to @DefraGovUK sandeel consultation to support a ban on industrial trawling for this important fish in English waters. Please lend your support and help save our globally threatened seabirds who rely on sandeels to survive. #SaveOurSeabirds ποΈ
Not one #PostOfTheMonth but 9! I've "embellished" some of the #Watford #telegraph #cable #markers in celebration of #Coronation and of 125th anniversary of 1st telegraph route through the town. See also latest edition of Watford News Magazine
Trying to track down author Benjamin J Elliott, now in the USA, re. GPO marker posts... is this you, @BenjElliott? Apologies if not!
Sometimes things land right in your lap. Driving near Stockport (a long way from home) I spotted this and stopped for a photo. Later Streetview searches revealed a couple more, but I was a few hundred miles away by then! #PostOfTheMonth #telegraph #cable #joint #marker #Stockport
A belated #PostOfTheMonth, featuring the 2nd of two reported just today! Near the centre of Glasgow, opening up all sorts of possibilities. March'23 has been best month for new #telegraph #cable #joint markers since March'22 π π·Richard Pipe
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Todayβs mission was to go and visit some of these fabulous #GPOMarkers - some I have passed multiple times and never noticed. I think they are wonderful - even the slightly buried one! ππ₯°π₯Ύ
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This #PostOfTheMonth in #Guernsey has lost its head... Damaged #telegraph #cable joint #marker by the bus station in @StPeterPort gpo-markers.derektp.co.uk/de⦠We know of at least 3 others on the island; any more? @GuernseyPress @BBCGuernsey
If last month's #PostOfTheMonth was hard to find, this one was handed over on a plate... or rather in a newspaper article! #Telegraph #cable #joint marker gpo-markers.derektp.co.uk/deβ¦, #Radlett, shown in bit.ly/3ZC67O1 Hertfordshire Mercury π·Hertfordshire Mercury/BPM Media
Sometimes finding #PostOffice #telegraph #cable joint markers is like looking for a needle in a haystack. Found today is the remains of a broken marker in #Chapeltown, #Leeds. It needs a morale boost, so #PostOfTheMonth it is - especially as it's No.650!πgpo-markers.derektp.co.uk/deβ¦
Sometimes I find #telegraph #cable #marker posts but don't get a chance to get a pic straight away. I saw this one just 10 miles away in #HemelHempstead almost 2 years ago but only just got its picture. Been painted white since! @DacorumHeritage gpo-markers.derektp.co.uk/deβ¦
#PostOfTheMonth is this one in Motherwell, which I found on Streetview thus breaking a drought of new #telegraph #cable joint #marker #post finds since August! gpo-markers.derektp.co.uk/deβ¦
A late #PostOfTheMonth, and it doesn't even exist any more! Photo from book "Pillar to Post" of a marker near #Tywardreath Highway #ParCornwall. Book by Henry Aaron, pic Ian Sherren. #Telegraph #cable #joint #marker Anyone know exactly where it was? gpo-markers.derektp.co.uk/deβ¦
