Engineers working on an electricity pylon


Engineers work on an electricity pylon in Poole, Dorset, in November 2005 following a scrapyard fire immediately below an adjacent pylon. This melted the ceramic insulators and brought down the wires, causing power cuts over large areas of Poole and Bournemouth.


Size: 6106px × 4005px
Location: Poole Dorset England UK Europe
Photo credit: © Tony Gwynne / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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