Phone Box Blog

Spoiler alert if you have seen ‘Stoker’. (The second shot starts the great Jackie Weaver.)

Here are some oldies that hadn’t made it onto the site yet. (Suzette stars in Budapest and it’s me in the middle box in Krakow.)

Hungary, Budapest (1997?)

Poland, Krakow (1997?)

Slovenia, Ljubljana

Slovenia, Stanjel

We visited Normandy in November last year and here are some of the phones we came across…

Bayeux

Falaise

Mont St Michel

St Malo

Normandy bus stop

Here is one from the third series of Mad Men 3 - we are a little behind in watching our box sets…

Today we visited a nuclear bunker in Essex -Secret Nuclear Bunker. I emailed the owners and they kindly let us bring our dog Couscous with us. Very interesting stuff. Although the bunker was decommissioned in the early 1990s the feel is more 1970s or earlier – the digital equipment was removed at the end and most of what is on show is telephonic systems etc of an earlier time. Here is one of the switchboards, there were a number of them in the bunker.

From a 2009 film Mr Nobody.

I wasn’t aware that in one my all time favourite films there was a phone box in the games room…

The Shining (1980)

And here is a film from 2013.

Iron Man 3

And another…

A good day to die hard (2013)

Celebration of Welsh phone boxes fails to sell a single copy

Publishers of Fast Disappearing Red Telephone Boxes of Wales 2014 have admitted they might have misjudged their target market after failing to shift a single unit of the niche calendar since it hit shops in September….

I would by a copy but can’t find a link to it anywhere!

From the English adaptation of The Tunnel.

This is ‘Spearhead from Space’ where we first meet actor John Pertwee playing the Doctor.