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“The famous phone boxes”: a review of ‘Out of Order by David Mach
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(The woman above wears a top just like one I remember my Mum had. My Mum’s was in brown.)
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Christmas tv viewing
Woody Allen pretends to make a phone call in the tv series ‘Crisis in six scenes‘ and in the New Year’s day ‘Sherlock‘ episode there is a classic London scene with a phone box…
Retail therapy
The Lego store in Leicester Square (‘i’ newspaper 26/12/16):
More on tv…
This was a recent episode from ‘Arrow’ set in the USA. So why is there a classic UK red phone box in the background?
From ‘The Code’ season 2. A classic shot of the Queensland landscape…
and a classic movie – ‘The Apartment’.
Phone boxes in the press
Evening Standard: 6 December 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:
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..
Banksy likes a phone box
Banksy likes a phone box – and so, it seems, does someone else…
Source: ‘i’ newspaper, 23/8/2016
Remember where it started
I visited the Sir John Soane’s Museum in London recently and was reminded of why this blog exists in the first place:
This is a wonderful museum and I can’t believe I have lived in London for almost 20 years and never visited before!
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