From a strange but lovely film from 2003 called ‘The Big Empty’.
The IT Crowd finale (2013)…
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Post box story
This is a post box story that tickles my fancy so I thought I should share it…
Post box appears on Thames bridge, confuses village and Uri Geller
A red letter box suddenly appears in the middle of a bridge in Berkshire.
Uri Geller and other villagers have been left confused by the sudden arrival of a red letter box in the middle of a bridge.
The box has been placed a metre above the water on a parapet of the bridge, which crosses the River Thames in Berkshire.
People in Sonning-on-Thames said that the box can only be accessed by boat users.
Geller, who has lived in the village for 33 years, told BBC News he had “never seen anything like it”.
“This is a very unusual village. There are many sightings of a child ghost that walks on the bridge,” he commented.
“Maybe it was the ghost of a mischievous little girl? I have never seen anything like this anywhere in the world, it’s a new one on me.”
Royal Mail spokesperson Val Bodden said: “The recent appearance of a post box frontage on the side of the river bridge at Sonning is a mystery to us.
“It is certainly not an operational posting facility and we have no knowledge of how it arrived at this location.”
BY TOM EAMES10/09/2013
Film & TV
This is from the 1984 film The Philadelphia Experiment.
What is a spy story without a phone box? Here’s a scene from a recent tv movie version, set pre-WWI, of ‘The 39 Steps’.
TV
From Derren Brown’s ‘Trick of the Mind’ series, here is the result of one of his mind tricks played out in a phone box at South Bank, London:
Art in a phone box
An art gallery in a phone box! What a great idea.
“We believe the Gallery on the Green is the smallest public art gallery in the world. Certainly it is the only one to be open 24/7 and filled to capacity at least twice a day!!”
For more details on the Gallery on The Green, Settle, UK, click here.
Liverpool Cathedral
This box can be found inside Liverpool Cathedral, England. It was placed here as a memorial to Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, the designer of the red telephone box (thanks to Rodhullandemu for the image, via Wikipedia).
Dungeness, Kent
Coins not accepted in this corner of Kent.
Local history
I was working in the stores for the Bexleyheath Heritage Trust yesterday and came across this old telephone switchboard…
Police Box
I’m not sure why it’s taken me so long to include the classic police box/TARDIS on the blog. Here is a garden shed variety…
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