My husband sent me the top photo, from Smithfields market, as he walked home this Christmas Eve. Then I saw the following article online, from that morning, also at Smithfields:
Artists assemble! How collectives took over the art world
This article starts with an image still from the film Otolith II, 2007 – featuring iconic red phone boxes.
Telephone Kiosk collection (5) – Police boxes
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Telephone Kiosk collection (4) – the K series
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K7
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Telephone Kiosk collection (3) – RAC
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Telephone Kiosk collection (2) – AA sentry boxes
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Recent Scottish trip
USA trip
We recently returned from two weeks holiday in the USA. We visited Washington D.C., Harrisonburg, Philadelphia and surrounds. Even though pay phones still feature heavily in tv and cinema, they do not feature on the streets to any great extent. I managed to get a few shots of remaining phone booths, with my favourite being in Philadelphia…
Atlantic City 
Atlantic City 
Lancaster 
Shenadoah National Park 
Washington 
Chinatown, Philly
WeWork removes thousands of phone booths due to “elevated formaldehyde”
It isn’t just WeWork’s now-pulled IPO that’s toxic at the company: according to a Business Insider report, the company emailed its tenants on Monday telling them that there was “potentially elevated levels of formaldehyde” in phone booths throughout WeWork offices in the U.S. and Canada. Why they used the word potential is unclear – according to the report, the company admitted that “tests for high levels of formaldehyde came back positive late last week”.
The email stated that the company was removing 1,600 phone booth from locations that “may be impacted” in addition to 700 other booths that have yet to be tested for formaldehyde. At some WeWork spaces on Monday, there were taped signs reading: “CAUTION: DO NOT USE” over the phone booths.
The company stated in its email that it had received complaints of “odor and eye irritation”. The EPA says that formaldehyde can cause respiratory symptoms and eye, nose and throat irritation.
Colleen Wong, a tenant at WeWork’s Rosslyn location in Arlington, Virginia said: “I always noticed, from the first time I entered a phone booth, a strong chemical odor. I assumed it was a new building / equipment type smell. Kind of like glue or a new car.”
“They had a chemical smell, like when you get something new in the mail,” a WeWork member from Minneapolis told Bloomberg.
WeWork says the high formaldehyde levels are the fault of the manufacturer of the phone booths.
Telephone Kiosk collection (1)
In August we visited the Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings in Worcestershire – https://avoncroft.org.uk/ . The Museum is, in itself, definitely worth a visit – especially as dogs are welcome, but I went mainly to see the National Collection of Telephone Kiosks. An unexpected nerdy and cool feature what how they’d hooked up the boxes on display to the small on-site exchange. You can makes calls between the boxes.
