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Patrick Gosling  
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 More options 10 Mar 2008, 16:54
Newsgroups: cam.misc
From: j...@eng.cam.ac.uk (Patrick Gosling)
Date: 10 Mar 2008 16:54:39 GMT
Local: Mon 10 Mar 2008 16:54
Subject: Re: Devices on lamp-posts
In article <07a6e4c9-ff97-46b3-aa25-47fb870b3...@e60g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>,
Phil Chung  <pylch...@gmail.com> wrote:

>Some devices have been cropping up on some lamp-posts in my street and
>neighbouring streets.  The devices look like cylindrical devices,
>mounted vertically on the side of the lamp-post, with a upturned dome
>at the bottom end.  This device is connected to a box, also on the
>lamp-post.  An aerial comes out of the box.  the aerial's on a long
>pole and looks like the ones on some of the electronic displays for
>available car parking places around the city.

>I always thought they maybe cameras, but these devices are in a quiet
>cul-de-sac (Arbury Park end of Histon Road).  Anyone know what they
>are?  I have only noticed them there very recently.

If you look a little lower down the lamp-posts, you'll see a dinky
little sign saying "CCTV".

-patrick.


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