Master Telephone Socket

[Mudball]

Yes that is what I was saying. Although it appears it is working on one wire it still needs the 2nd wire to have to an inductive connection of some kind, commonly known as an “HR DIS” to engineers. (HR DIS is short for High Resistance DISconnection)

Re the wire from the “lamppost” if it is actually a wooden telegraph pole it would need an engineer to climb the pole to disconnect the “drop wire”. If it is a metal pole that the drop wires disappear inside the pole then it would need an engineer to open the pole at the base to disconnect it.

Yup a wooden lampost that seems to go to everyone in the area but mostly everyone is on Virgin around my block.

But to as Jim8 says.. might be a good optic to leave it there if we ever sell the house ..