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[dk544]

There is a picture here - I think they are normally underground but can be pole mounted.

Hmm I've seen something similar (round and grey) at the side of the road just a bit away from me. I'll have to take a closer look tomorrow.

[burakkucat]

Hmm I've seen something similar (round and grey) at the side of the road just a bit away from me. I'll have to take a closer look tomorrow.

And then provide us with the (obligatory) photograph! 

[WWWombat]

There is a picture here - I think they are normally underground but can be pole mounted.

I think that's a picture of the same node as in my first link. The trays inside are definitely laid out for a splitter node - the layouts are shown explicitly in the instruction manuals in my second link, and the photos show where the blocks of coloured trays sit.

[Black Sheep]

... that conclusively states these are 'Pole Mounted Enclosures' for FTTP Brownfield.

so we just need to figure what it is enclosing 

As FTTP is not my 'game', I'm guessing just a simple fibre joint ?? Here's a list of pole-mounted fibre gear ......

Pole Mounted Fibre
Distribution Point (12 end users) Distributes 12 fibres to 12 end users via blown fibre bundle.

Pole Mounted Fibre
Distribution Point (32 end users) Distributes 32 fibres to 32 end users via blown fibre bundle.
 
Pole Mounted Primary
Splitter Node (32-way dual split network) Provides 1st level of split on 32-way dual split network.
 
Pole Mounted Splitter
Provides 2nd level of split on a dual split network.
 
Pole Mounted Transition
Provides joint between underground and overhead
 
Blown Fibre Drop Tube Manifold
Distributes up to 12 single drop tubes from one 7-tube or 12-tube Blown Fibre cable

[dk544]

Turns out it wasn't all that similar.

[burakkucat]

At a first glance, I thought it was a galvanised pressed-steel dust-bin! 

To be honest, I have no idea what that could be. Does the top come off it?

[Black Sheep]

If that is part of Openreachs' street-furniture, I can honestly say it's the first time I've seen anything like it

[c6em]

Is that not some old SCP street pillar?

[Black Sheep]

Not like any SCP I've ever seen before, but it may be ?? The body would have to be 're-moveable' as well as the lid if it was, to enable access to the wires. Just lifting the lid would not be suffice. 

[burakkucat]

Is that not some old SCP street pillar?

My memory (from the 1950s, in the London suburbs) is of Primary Cross-Connection Points (cabinets) leading to Secondary Cross-Connection Points (cabinets) leading to Tertiary Cross-Connection Points (pillars, manufactured out of some sort of asbestos cement-like material) at the foot of each pole. The pillars were of a smaller diameter and taller in height then the item so pictured.

[Black Sheep]

They're the only legacy ones I know of, Mr Cat. They are completely obsolete now on the patches I frequent, due to the fact they were constructed mainly of asbestos ...... I have seen a few tin-type material SCP's in the past though.

Most SCP's were either re-shelled, or re-housed in the underground box 'feeding' it.

[burakkucat]

b*cat nods to acknowledge the information in B*Sheep's post. 

The particular area of the London suburbs, upon which my memories are based, were swept away in the 1960s -- supposedly in the name of post-World War 2 "slum clearance" (to quote the Government of the day) -- and was replaced by tower-blocks, constructed with high-alumina cement, which, within just a few years, became ghettos/slums in their own right in which nobody wished to live. 

[dk544]

Is that not some old SCP street pillar?

Well it's certainly not old as it has only appeared within the last ~6 months.

[burakkucat]

It sort of reminds me of the business end of an ICBM silo . . . 

If you remove the top, to take a look inside, be prepared for a sudden launch! 

[Weaver]

Mr Sulu, scan the area for temporal anomalies.