Private Eye, 2 Sep 216, p.28 (Funny Old World: Victor Lewis Smith)
New viewing
Adam Curtis has released a new documentary called ‘HyperNormalisation‘. I highly recommend it. Here is a screen shot of a phone box in Russia – not in working order but I love the architecture around it.
New York City, USA
In New York we went to the Intrepid Museum which has a submarine on site. There are loads of phones scattered throughout the sub and they had an example of a sonar phone. So not phone boxes as such but still…
Sonar phone
Growler sub
Growler sub
Other NYC phones:
Frick Collection house phone
New York street
Quebec City, Canada
Old City
On the road
Montreal, Canada
We took a holiday in Canada/USA last month and I have a few photos to post:
Montreal airport
Montreal airport
Shopping centre
Port of Montreal sculpture
Port of Montreal
Angel Islington, London, wander
We took a walk around Angel yesterday. It’s been a while and good to see some things hadn’t changed. I have two phone box photos to share – a classic autumn scene and a wine cabinet specially crafted..
UK’s highest phone box faces axe by BT
And another story about closures… My thought – if it costs £310 a year to maintain the box then can the three groups quoted in this article all throw in £100 a year to sponsor the phone-box? BT can pay any remainder costs and everyone should be happy. Anyway, the story:
Phone closures
This appeared in the ‘i’ newspaper yesterday (11 October 2016). Sign of the times:
Which leads nicely onto this:
Banksy likes a phone box
Banksy likes a phone box – and so, it seems, does someone else…
Source: ‘i’ newspaper, 23/8/2016
Still very relevant
BT may be removing phone boxes in some parts of the UK but they are installing new ones in others parts. Today, in Bloomsbury, central London, I walked past a very new building belonging to the University of London. It looks like fancy student accommodation. The foyer is bright and shiny and in the centre, standing proud, is a gleaming red phone box:
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