Here is one from the third series of Mad Men 3 – we are a little behind in watching our box sets…
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.
Phone box calendar
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!
Bilingual TV
From the English adaptation of The Tunnel.
Classic Dr Who
This is ‘Spearhead from Space’ where we first meet actor John Pertwee playing the Doctor.
Rome, Italy
It seems that the Vatican have had a refit of their phone boxes. Here is a photo I took around 1998…
And here is one from earlier this week (much more classy)…
A couple more from this week…
