Spot the box…
Murder in a phone box
Spoiler alert if you have seen ‘Stoker’. (The second shot stars the great Australian actress Jackie Weaver.)
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
TV
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!
Phone box in film and ficton
Just saw ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’. Fabulous movie by one of my favourite directors. I really do love Wes Anderson’s way of looking at the world. Anyway there is a lovely shot of a telephone box on stilts, pained with black and yellow zig-zags, in the middle of a snow covered field.
I am currently reading Morrissey’s ‘Autobiogrpahy’ and enjoying it. He has a very descriptive, evocative prose style. p. 179 says…”The realities of each northern day at the turn of the 1980s played out against a hardened backdrop in late repentance, because the north is a separate country – one of wild night landscapes of affectionate affliction. There are no known technological links apart from the telephone box on the corner, and this can always be relied upon to be out of order.”
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