Pylons on the Shap fells on Christmas day in thew mid-190s BY ROY CHATFIELD
FEW people have been this close to a line of electricity pylons as they appear to march across the Cumbrian countryside.
In the mid-1990s Barrow photographer took a Christmas day county tour with his camera which took in Penrith and Gretna, just over the Scottish border, before returning through Shap.
His picture of the Shap electricity pylons makes them look almost like modern art – but they are no Angel of the North.
Communities across much of Furness and South Lakeland have been campaigning against plans for more pylons, including 200 people who met in a Kirkby field to spell out a giant “No”.
The pylons are wanted to take power from a planned nuclear power station in West Cumbria.
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