The pylon. An enabler of modern living.

The first pylon was erected less than 10 miles from here in 1928. The National Grid eventually came to life in 1938, local grids were common by 1933.
Since the outset people have complained of “the permanent disfigurement of the landscape” by transmission towers and overhead lines. One famous response was “Anyone who has seen these strange masts and lines striding across the country, ignoring all obstacles in their strenuous march, can realise without a great effort of imagination that [they] have an element of romance of their own. The wise man does not tilt at windmills—one may not like it, but the world moves on.”
I suppose they’re part of the price of progress.