General Post Office marker post. There will be a telephone cable buried 2 foot beneath it
“Used to mark where a telephone cable runs by displaying the distance in Feet using up to three interchangeable numbers. The examples here are in a reasonable state of repair considering they are at least 50 – 70 years old, but often they are found to be crumbling away to reveal the iron reinforcing bars.”
Very very old phone cable lies beneath. GPO = general post office who used to own all the telephone/telegraph wires before it was all handed (for free) to BT.
My Grandad used to dig these holes and stick these in.
It tells you where the nearest GP’s Office is, of course.
Gypsy parking only ancient sign
GPO which became BT.. if you go 2 feet in front of that marker you should find a manhole and inside it will be a splice for those old land-line telephones.
Does it mark where a sub postmaster was hung out to dry? General Post Office – Fucking Thieves?
R.I.P GPO you’ll be dearly missed
It was for a hedgehog that died in the Georgian period but his name and date of birth was not known. You should lay some flowers for him and stop and ponder your own existence for a moment, it’s what I always do
Taking a guess here …… But I think it’s a burial site for a small rodent??
When my youngest son was very young. He asked the same question as OP. So I told him it was the final resting place of a talking seagull who went be the name of ‘Giant Peter Osbourne’.
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A telecom marking post, marking the location of buried cable joints. GPO is General Post Office – see last section on https://industrialtour.co.uk/blog/telecom-street-cover-cabinet-designs/
https://gpo-markers.derektp.co.uk/
General Post Office marker post. There will be a telephone cable buried 2 foot beneath it
“Used to mark where a telephone cable runs by displaying the distance in Feet using up to three interchangeable numbers. The examples here are in a reasonable state of repair considering they are at least 50 – 70 years old, but often they are found to be crumbling away to reveal the iron reinforcing bars.”
[Source](https://www.ringbell.co.uk/nostalgia/AAT.htm)
Gravestone for a corded phone, I am surprised we don’t see more of them.
General Peter Oswald. WWII pilot, his plane exploded over England and so peices of him were scattered all over the place.
[Wikipedia.org/General-Peter-Oswald ](https://bit.ly/3B4zb94)
The GPO owned it before.
Very very old phone cable lies beneath. GPO = general post office who used to own all the telephone/telegraph wires before it was all handed (for free) to BT.
My Grandad used to dig these holes and stick these in.
It tells you where the nearest GP’s Office is, of course.
Gypsy parking only ancient sign
GPO which became BT.. if you go 2 feet in front of that marker you should find a manhole and inside it will be a splice for those old land-line telephones.
Does it mark where a sub postmaster was hung out to dry? General Post Office – Fucking Thieves?
R.I.P GPO you’ll be dearly missed
It was for a hedgehog that died in the Georgian period but his name and date of birth was not known. You should lay some flowers for him and stop and ponder your own existence for a moment, it’s what I always do
Taking a guess here …… But I think it’s a burial site for a small rodent??
When my youngest son was very young. He asked the same question as OP. So I told him it was the final resting place of a talking seagull who went be the name of ‘Giant Peter Osbourne’.
I love that you called it a Monument