The circular SCP's -secondary connection points[like a small grey pillar ]are redundant but you still may see some about .They are made of asbestos so are best left alone. Never seen one like the photo though ,probably a regional thing..

think jointer but like the horse tie thing.

google bought up some choices.

Some one said on the last thing I found, Was there for shoe lace tieing.

Can see the use there!.

safe then.

like our garage roof, what a fuss when bagging that up for the tip.

Thanks for the replies! Sounds like "jointing box" is the best match then.

I've never actually thought to stop and measure it but it would be a couple of feet tall and a few inches thick.

I might stop by it tonight for a look... with my utility key

That's a marker for a buried split coupling on a duct.

Hull has never been served by GPO / PO / BT

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Adriandaz says there are some, a strange one then.

Was coming back on that comment, not been there,

I like the horse thing, is more funny.

In our lifetime ( I am 38), i wander if all the cable will be gone and fibre all the way.
maybe not the far away in the middle of knowhere on 10km or more line that must exist ( guessing, not a bt or phone guy). Will then some other marker arrive for burried optic fibre.

Most be some knacked old cable out there. our replaced drop wire from the grey box on the drownstairs floor level outside wall of the block of 4 was replaced, old and seen better days so changed to a 2 way white join box in the roof as upstairs flat aND we get the roof storage.

Wire must have its day even if youngens are 70 or 80 by then.

then more covers in the road where joins are wont be nneded as a piece of fibre and not joined but guess that does.

I have no doubt there are jointing posts in Hull. They won't have BT or GPO on them though, they will have 'corporation telephones' or suchlike markings

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That's a marker for a buried split coupling on a duct.

Hull has never been served by GPO / PO / BT

For fixed line telephony services!

Hull as in Kingston Comms is the last small town teleco, most towns had their own at one time, these got absorbed, just Hull decided to stay out of it.

Hello

Doing the google thing and got some wikipedia sites and links on 1 to another

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KCOM_Group

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BT_Group

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Post_Office

Interesting reads.

Not disbeliving anyone tat hull never has GPO there. Knew from this think broadband about hull being different. Was others in places but never lasted.

So cream phone boxes and a white pages. beeter for recycling I guess, all the nasty yellow dye in ours. Here they don't want it in the recycling bin. Of the point.

Hull, so never has had.
I learn't something today then.

nice one. All good stuff.