The town clock and Stoneham Street. Enlargement from 04/08. The white wrapped telephone pole is an enigma. It was decided to do this during the black-out in WW1 to prevent people walking in to them in the dark. The council asked the gas company to mark their street lights in the same way- and they refused probably because the town had stopped paying for the gas (no lights were lit) and had asked for a refund! Thing is this photo can't be later than 1910, four years before the war started so perhaps this particular pole, put up in 1908, had already proved a hazard?
Date: 1908
Ref: 04/18b