We recently visited the IoW where there is a funky model village in the town of Godshill. Of corse it has it’s own communications…
Godshill
UK
Here are a couple from Kent in the UK:
Rochester
Ramsgate
Germany & France
This phone is by the park where the Oktoberfest is held.
Munich
This next one is actually a town that was once in Germany. We visited with a friend when there was a Christmas market on.
Kayserberg
San Francisco
Haight Ashbury
By the Port
Design aspects
In my artefacts lecture today we had a visit from Bill Sillar. He enlightened us on the origins for the design of the red UK phone box (among many other things). Giles Gilbert Scott based it on the John Soane Mausoleum in St Pancras Old Churchyard.
Soane Mausoleum
source: UCL Dept Earth Sciences
As a class we recently visited LARC where the original architectual model for the red phone box is kept. It’s about 1 metre in height. Annoyingly I didn’t take a camera.
Hong Kong
Here are a couple from my husbands recent stint in Hong Kong.
Kowloon
A classic car show
Japan
My husband has been in Tokyo again for business and has sent me a few shots for the blog. The first is at Enoshima, then Gora, Hase and Maronouchi:
Tripoli
We visited Libya on a short tour to see the archaeological sites. I couldn’t find any phone boxes but they do have phone shops.
Tripoli
Phone shop sign
