The British Isles is dotted with triangulation pillars. These “Trig points” were placed by the Ordnance Survey as a means of triangulating locations when mapping the country back in the 1930s. They can be found all over the country and are generally marked on Ordnance Survey maps (certainly the 1:25,000 scale Explorer maps at least).
Todays post shows a trig point a mile or so from where I live. I’ve known it was there for a long time, but had never walked up to it before this occasion. While the pillar is the usual concrete obelisk, this one has a significant number of rocks, stones and pebbles deposited around it’s base, many of them decorated with pictures and messages.
During the Covid-19 pandemic many of these messages are in support of the NHS and frontline workers. Some of them are brightly coloured and this was an occasion where colour film might have been a more suitable choice.
Canon Sure Shot Telemax & Ilford Delta 400. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 8 mins @ 20°.
Taken on 25 April 2020
Steel City Snapper photography 
There is a site in the park near my house where people have left painted stone messages. I’ll post the images when my film is developed.
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I’ll keep an eye out for them.
There’s been a popular trend in the UK for a few years where people (mostly children) decorate small stones and pebbles and leave them for people to find, often along footpaths and similar locations. I’ve never seen a huge collection of them like this before though. It’s almost like a cairn.
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Great stuff! Is it Peter Griffin from The Family Guy on the stone? awesome!
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Thanks Yuri. I’m not sure – I thought it was Wally / Waldo from the Where’s Wally books.
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