More or less by chance we came across this bit of critical national infrastructure in the course of our visit to the Sea Trout Inn at Staverton, across the River Dart from Dartington, near Totnes, the place with the long hairs, beans and tofu. Otherwise the electricity sub-station at Bumpton Cross. I forget what drew our attention to it.
Presumably has the same place in the power transmission scheme of things as the sub-station at Malden Rushett, near us, one of a ring of such things, more or less around the M25.
A reasonably discrete place which one could easily miss if one was not looking out for it.
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| Just about visible through the trees |
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| By the front gate |
The pylon by the front gate struck me as being rather more sturdy than is usual. A front gate which was open but it seemed better not to march right in. I remember being ticked off good and proper by a water board man when we wandered into a very modest water facility on the Isle of Raasay, just to the east of the Isle of Skye.
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| Base of pylon previous |
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| Presumably quite a small power station in the scheme of things |
Lines out of east of the place look to be heading to Torquay. Maybe those heading out south are heading for some power station somewhere on the south coast? According to Wikipedia about the only candidate is the gas station at Langage, near Plymouth. A place fired, as it happens, by Alstom gas turbines, a French company better known to me for having gobbled up most of our railway engineering.
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| More bees on ivy in the pub car park |
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| Maybe wasps |
Onto the Sea Trout Inn, a Palmers House in Staverton, not that I was in any position to take advantage of their fine ale. Fizzy water for me. As the Two Bridges Hotel, a bit stripped down for the plague, which did nothing for the ambience. But my burger was fine, very much the sort of thing I have been getting from the Blenheim. As was the other food. And quite a decent range of desserts for those who took them.
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| The cutlery barrel |
Seemed a bit harsh to score the little barrel that the cutlery came in as a fake. It was, after all, made with real staves and real hoops. It might even have been reasonably water proof.
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| The bridge at Staverton |
The bridge was a bit wider than the one at Fingle, one could actually drive across it. Past a serious infestation of kayak people, who seemed to be getting to all the navigable bits of river in the area. Brought out by the autumn rains.
PS: very frustrating. Can't get the spacing of the snaps quite right, even by peering into the raw HTML. Maybe tomorrow.
PS: later that evening: now looks right when published, but wrong in compose view. I suppose that is going to have to do. Life too short.
Reference 1: https://www.alstom.com/. Not obviously into power generation, but search for gas turbines does turn some up.
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