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Tag Archives: UK
Cotswolds
Here’s a recent one from our little jaunt to the Cotswolds. This was opposite our B&B in Crudwell.
Crudwell
UK
Here are a couple from Kent in the UK:
Rochester
Ramsgate
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.
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District 9
This was sent in from a London location.
UK
London?
I don’t really remember where this was taken, but I’m sure it was in England, perhaps London.
Covent Garden
London
In my wanderings I came across this row today.
A colleague of my husband’s told him, after seeing this blog, that I was either insane or a genius. Hmmm. She suggested I apply for a lottery grant to pursue my art. An interesting thought.
Online not phone line
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.
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