Councillor Looks Into Pole Mystery
Cllr Hulme with the mysterious pole. (picture: Ken Hulme)
A member of Saddleworth Parish Council has said he’s baffled by a telegraph pole in a Delph street, which has nothing attached to it. Cllr Ken Hulme has said he wants to “get to the bottom of the mystery” of the pole, which was apparently put up in Clifton Holm three years ago.
Cllr Hulme, an independent member of the council, takes up the story: “In these past three years the pole has remained ‘in situ’ and nothing has been attached to it. It stands there today majestic and solitary – completely uncluttered by any telephone wires or other attachments. Unfortunately in those three years or more the Clifton Holm pole has taken a few knocks by passing vehicles – it has been planted in a particularly exposed place for cars and vans to bump into it – and has become the leaning pole of Clifton Holm.”
He goes on: “Amazingly when contacted by slightly concerned local residents worried about the angle the pole was leaning at, BT claimed to have no knowledge of the leaning pole of Clifton Holm. Its very existence was a mystery to them and no record apparently existed of it ever being erected by them.”
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Author: Jude Gidney - Editor
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