London

London

Central London

Muswell Hill, London

Muswell Hill

Malta

Malta

Malta

Gozo

Gozo

Gozo

Gozo

Phone box upgrades in NYC

Giant Touchscreens Coming To NYC Phone Booths

The public pay phone of the future looks like a gigantic iPad. The city plans to unveil 32-inch “smart screens” with Internet connections next month inside 250 old phone booths throughout the five boroughs…

Phone box installations

Concept art for the phone box
“These 12 concept mobile phone telephone booths attempt to recapture the personal isolation those old public phones provided while enhancing the experience of conversing in the city.”

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Copenhagen

We spent the weekend in Copenhagen. There were very few phone boxes around which surprised me a little. Lots of post boxes and fire hydrants though.

City centre

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While we were in Christiania I accidently took a photo of a urinal, thinking it was some kind of art installation. Seeing as I have another in the blog somewhere I thought I’d include it.

Christiania

Online not phone line

New model

New model

I knew this blog would have to be dragged into the new millennium at some point. Today is the day. We took Couscous out for a walk at Allhallows, on the Thames just up from Gravesend. Instead of a ‘Phone’ box there was an ‘Internet’ box.

Singapore

Home via Singapore…

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Australia again

Uki, NSW

Uki, NSW

Woodford, Qld

Woodford, Qld

Tasmania

We recently spent a month in Australia, returning via Singapore and narrowly missing out on Qantas industrial action. We spent some time in Tasmania as evidenced by…

Bruny Island

Bruny Island

Bruny Island

Bruny Island

ds coffee house, Huonville

ds coffee house, Huonville

Telephone tower, Mt Wellington

Telephone tower, Mt Wellington

Telephone system 1910 to 1970s, Port Arthur

Telephone system 1910 to 1970s, Port Arthur

Port Arthur

Port Arthur

Syria

Damascus

Damascus