What's this for?

[pilch]

Outside the folks house. Need to work out what utility owns it so we see if it can be moved! Any ideas?!

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[enuff_zed]

My guess is Post Office, which these days I'd assume would be BT?

[smorris_12]

Yep, something phone related. The good old GPO.

[pilch]

My guess is Post Office, which these days I'd assume would be BT?

I was thinking about that but maybe it's obsolete as the houses all had new BT lines connected earlier this year with the pavement dug up and there's a new access point for the house about 10ft further along the wall

[smorris_12]

It is a (post 1969) GPO junction pillar hiding some cable joins for the phone system. It may, or may not, be anything to do with the particular property it's outside and it may, or may not, still be connected to anything. If you need it removed or buried you'll need to talk to OpenReach as they maintain the physical copper network having been split off from BT a while ago (and BT took on all of the PO's phone assets in the 80s.)

You may have to go thru your phone provider to get to OpenReach as I'm not sure if you can approach them directly.

[pilch]

It is a (post 1969) GPO junction pillar hiding some cable joins for the phone system. It may, or may not, be anything to do with the particular property it's outside and it may, or may not, still be connected to anything. If you need it removed or buried you'll need to talk to OpenReach as they maintain the physical copper network having been split off from BT a while ago (and BT took on all of the PO's phone assets in the 80s.)

You may have to go thru your phone provider to get to OpenReach as I'm not sure if you can approach them directly.

That's great thank you

[BeeEmm]

It could mean Piss Off.

[Pondrew]

You are all wrong.
It is a gravestone for a dear, beloved pet named "Po". Probably a small dog IMO!

[buzyg]

It could mean Piss Off.

Or Piss On.

[buzyg]

You are all wrong.
It is a gravestone for a dear, beloved pet named "Po". Probably a small dog IMO!

You beat me to it,

[Nanu]

How about just attacking it with a sledge hammer and see who complains?

If anybody does, just tell them it was a bigger boy what done it who ran away

[ronk]

Is the triangular key the same size as the Electric and Gas meter?
Then take the top cover off and have a look

[Pondrew]

How about just attacking it with a sledge hammer and see who complains?

From experience, that's the quickest way you will get BT/ Openreach to do anything with it.
Took me months to get them to understand I had built another house in my garden and needed the bit of string moving across for the telephone. When they eventually did it a big digger snapped the overhead line a week later. They then fixed it the next day! No charge...Go figure?!

[MikeyH]

Be careful opening it, there was a case a few years ago when a young couple bought a house with one of these outside the front door and decided in a moment of madness to remove it. All hell broke loose, neighbours said that they both got sucked into some sort of time vortex and have not been seen since.

[pilch]

Be careful opening it, there was a case a few years ago when a young couple bought a house with one of these outside the front door and decided in a moment of madness to remove it. All hell broke loose, neighbours said that they both got sucked into some sort of time vortex and have not been seen since.

I'll get the folks to do it then