Two from Matthew’s visit not so long ago:
Category Archives: Geography
Some random old photos
These are the last of my older photos that should have been uploaded long ago…
Cairo, Egypt (I think)
Hong Kong
Albufeural, Portugal
Ireland
Here are some from about a year ago when we visited Ireland:
Cobh
Cork
Dublin
Galway
old style
Istanbul, Turkey
We recently visited Istanbul and came across a real variety of phone boxes. I traveled here many years ago but it was the trip before my decision to photograph phone boxes on my travels so it was good to go back and make up for missed opportunities.
I like this one hidden within a stall, behind the Blue Mosque…
Me at the airport with the English phone box version in the background:
Tilbury Fort, Essex
We visited Tilbury Fort this afternoon, located across from Gravesend on the other side of the Thames. It’s described as one of the finest surviving 17th century forts in England. There is a small museum display in the Officers’ barracks which includes a phone set from WWII (I think)…
Manchester
I visited Manchester yesterday…
and here is a photo of street art that recently? appeared in Manchester, in the Northern Quarter. I think it was titled ‘Wonder woman’:
Updating Eastern Europe
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
France
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
Kelvedeon Hatch nuclear bunker – Essex
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.
