The eagerly anticipated Pylons Calender 2024 has been dubbed “electric” by The Daily Star.
It features never-before-seen snaps of one of the UK’s boldest and best transmission towers from up and down the nation. The thrilling release was brought to the attention of The Star by its creator, Stuart Atkinson, who took some time to talk us through his pièce de résistance.
The 55-year-old says he first took an interest in these monuments to the nation’s power supply “as a kid” with day-dreamy classes spent looking at “a massive pylon outside” his high school.
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The Manchester-based hazardous-waste worker revealed he travels the country regularly for his job and explained how looking at pylons helps make his journey more “interesting.”
“I started noticing different shapes and different bits on pylons – what does that mean and why is that like that? Why’s that got four cables and what’s that hanging off there?”
Inspired by the British “tradition” of making calendars Stuart explained how initially he had intended to use photographs of pylons with an interesting feature. “The first one I noticed was the April one. It's just a standard pylon but right next to it is a drive-thru Greg's which is the first in the UK… the second one was a dinosaur in a golf park but the third one, I had to give up because I couldn't find anything interesting.”
That was that, then, and so he opted instead to offer up a “Top Trumps”-style fact sheet about each of the pylons featured in the calendar, “because you could sort of compare it after… it took me a couple of months just to of learn what some of the bits were,” Stuart explained.
“I had to join the pylon appreciation society, which I’m not proud of.”
He’s now sold over 200 copies but noted: “Obviously it is a bit of a joke, but I am interested. I’m not nerdy or geeky about it but it’s obviously something that will help tickle people a bit and, you know, the world's on its ass so to speak and people need cheering up, so that was the main idea about it.”
Does Stuart have a favourite pylon? “In terms of just any standard pylon, I do like the L2, as it's called, which is just the 1950s bog standard, just a straight thing with three cross arms all the same size. It’s just the vanilla of pylons.”
And on the calendar? “It’s on September, it’s at the Clackmannanshire Crossing – it’s Scotland’s tallest pylon… it’s quite impressive.
You can buy the Pylons Calender 2024 for £12.99 onStuart’s Etsy site.
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