Engineer - (erecting poles) : Peter Wareham

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At this time or just after this time then pole erection units were brought in where a route of poles went across country, especially to serve farms. This would require the manhandling the poles across fields, not very easy if the field was ploughed; also of course on occasions they had to be renewed. This would help boost the tea kitty as the farmer usually bought the old pole for fence or gate posts and it saved us lumbering it all back again across, but on one occasion when renewing a pole across a couple of fields the fields appeared empty of cattle so we left a couple of gates open. It was only after completing the work carrying tools etcetera back to our vehicle that we found cows in the field, not that any got out onto the road, but the two fields belonged to different farmers, not that we were aware of it at the time, but next day we had to go back to the farms and apologise for getting the cattle mixed up.