Telephone pole, Rosedale Road, Sheffield
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The photograph on this page of Telephone pole, Rosedale Road, Sheffield by Stephen Craven as part of the Geograph project.
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Telephone pole, Rosedale Road, Sheffield
Image: © Stephen Craven Taken: 12 Jul 2025
An unusually large number of phone cables emanates from this pole. With the imminent demise of landline phones in favour of full-fibre broadband, the days of this kind of installation may be numbered, though for the time being they are still used to take Openreach's fibreoptic cables into homes.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.369335
Longitude
-1.492281