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Ugly monstrosities!

:-(

But they don't have to be....

http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/design-depot-deer-shaped-electrical-towers

http://webecoist.momtastic.com/2011/05/13/land-of-giants-towering-icelandic-super-sculptures%E2%80%A8/

That's a couple of examples.... find more if you google.

Wow!! they're lovely.
Strangely, when I see pylons, I always think of 'The Iron Man' by Ted Hughes :-D

They're still monsters, but a lot more pleasing to the eye.

:-D

The Pylons

The secret of these hills was stone, and cottages
Of that stone made,
And crumbling roads
That turned on sudden hidden villages

Now over these small hills, they have built the concrete
That trails black wire
Pylons, those pillars
Bare like nude giant girls that have no secret.

The valley with its gilt and evening look
And the green chestnut
Of customary root,
Are mocked dry like the parched bed of a brook.

But far above and far as sight endures
Like whips of anger
With lightning's danger
There runs the quick perspective of the future.

This dwarfs our emerald country by its trek
So tall with prophecy
Dreaming of cities
Where often clouds shall lean their swan-white neck.

Stephen Spender

Pylons result in 'rent' being paid to the owner of the space they stand on - or, at least, that was so in my farming time.

My family think I'm mad but I like pylons, wind turbines and chimney pots!

I love looking at all the different shapes and sizes!

The art designs are really attractive, and could make a difference if they were interspersed between the tradional design.

Not far from here is a large substation/distribution building from which power lines and pylons march off in all directions. Necessary but so terribly ugly.

I have always liked Bloomfield's pylons marching across the landscape which utterly transformed life in the UK between 1926 amd 1939 but then I always liked mining headstocks, Battersea Power Station and the Drax cooling towers.

The new design is insipid a pylon for all seasons. Anyway it is what we will get no escapees from "Trapped".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-32225276

My grandchildren asked me why they where called Pylons

I said because they pylon the wire on them ;-) ;-)

etymology: Mid 19th century: from Greek pulon, from pule 'gate'.