Tag Archives: UK

Synod in a phone box

From a news article titled ‘Archbishop of Canterbury plans to loosen ties of divided Anglican communion’, comes this:

He hopes to hold a meeting of the new body in 2020. One member of his staff said: “If so few people want to come that we could hold it in a telephone box, fine, we’ll hold it in a telephone box.”

Charing Cross Station, London

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Eltham Palace

The phone box inside the fabulous Eltham Palace, London.

UK, Eltham Palace

Recent tv

SPOILER ALERT (Wayward Pines) further down the page…

More spy action…

The Game

The Game

The Game

The Game

Even in the far distant future, on a ruined earth, phones are still working…

Wayward Pines

Wayward Pines

Bletchley Park

We took a visit to Bletchley Park over the weekend. Can highly recommend it. Here in a corner by the Mansion I found a phone…

UK, Bletchley Park

Marriage proposal

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The Evening Standard (15 June 2015, p.3) reports of US tourist Stephen Jensen proposing to his girlfriend Megan Shuldes in from of Big Ben (I had just visited Big Ben with family). But for our purposes it was in front of a classic red, telephone box.

Battle

We took a trip to Battle today (think Norman Conquest 1066AD) and came across a phone box tucked into history:

UK, Battle Abbey

 

Iconic London

This shot was used to set the scene in London, in an episode of ‘Bones’ from season 4:

Bones season 4

More phones on the screen

Cold Weather (2010)

Cold Weather (2010)

The Blacklist

The Blacklist

Spooks (season 1)

Spooks (season 1)

Seven days in May (1964)

Seven days in May (1964)

New use for old style

Need juice? Mobile-charging phone boxes planned across London

This week’s best city stories from around the web explore an initiative to transform phone boxes into free mobile-charging hubs across the UK capital, critique New York’s proposed ferry network, celebrate sidewalk gardening in LA and discover the world’s first artificially-cooled outdoor plaza…

(story from The Guardian online)