Uploaded on 2015-06-02 by chrisjongkind

I've attached an image of my own, from the Hounslow neighbourhood of west London, taken in 2004. This splay of cables from a single node provides land-line telephone connectivity to nearby residential units (24 units on a quick count). Each house then needs a weather-proof receiver box on the exterior wall. This linkage of common neighbourhood infrastructure to the individual architecture of each house is impossible to miss. This connection would have been vital during the era in which it was built, but today with mobile phones, is more of a visually interesting relic of a past technology. Other connections, depending on the era in which they were installed, are found underground; electricity comes underground in this same neighbourhood - it's only the phone company that decided it better decades ago to use a big communal pole. ![enter image description here][1] [1]: https://edxuploads.s3.amazonaws.com/14332103537455709.jpg