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Owain Lastname wrote:
On Sunday, 15 November 2020 at 12:10:00 UTC, Roland Perry wrote:
We had ours installed in the early 50s, Party line. The overhead
cables came in at the back of the house.
Very unusual setup. What did the outside cable soar over - your back
garden and someone else's and their front garden, to a pole in the
next street?

Seems to be more common in Scotland - I think most of the houses I've
lived in have a pole in someone's bacl garden or tenement drying court,
and the wires go over the back gardens rather than over the road at the
front. There are no poles in the street.

Occasionally one gets an Openreach person asking for the back passage to
be opened so he can get access to his pole.

Makes sense when you think about it. Houses were generally built with the
best 'finish' to the front. Better quality bricks or better dressed stone.
So why ruin the look of the street with ugly telephone poles and wiring?

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