Category Archives: Geography

Rome, Italy

It seems that the Vatican have had a refit of their phone boxes. Here is a photo I took around 1998…
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And here is one from earlier this week (much more classy)…

A couple more from this week…
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USA

Stamford

Stamford

Russia

We recently spent a week in Russa, visiting Moscow and St Petersburg. I have a small selection of phone photos here which are to be expected but the combination of telephones and umbrellas is a little out of the ordinary…

Moscow Kremlin

Moscow Kremlin

Moscow GUM

Moscow GUM

Moscow

Moscow

Moscow

Moscow

St Petersburg

St Petersburg

St Petersburg

St Petersburg

Political History Museum, St Petersburg

Political History Museum, St Petersburg

Liverpool Cathedral

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This box can be found inside Liverpool Cathedral, England. It was placed here as a memorial to Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, the designer of the red telephone box (thanks to Rodhullandemu for the image, via Wikipedia).

Smithfields, London

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Dungeness, Kent

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Coins not accepted in this corner of Kent.

Switzerland

We recently spent a few days in Switzerland. There weren’t many phone boxes about but here are a couple. Note: check the destination of one of the local buses.

Bern

Bern

Bern

Bern

Bern

Bern

Thun

Thun

Thun

Thun

British Virgin Islands

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Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/apr/05/offshore-industry-britain

Ireland

In 2012 I visited southern Ireland on holiday…

Cobh

Cobh

Cork

Cork

Dublin

Dublin

Galway

Galway

Old phone box style

Old phone box style

Florence

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I returned to Italy recently to finish my textiles analysis course at the Lisio and had another chance to get a phone with a view.