Another one from cinema. This still is taken from the horror movie Creep, which is set in the London Underground. Of course it’s horror so the phone doesn’t work…
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TV
All of a sudden I see loads of phone boxes on the small screen. I guess they are still an integral part of the modern world.
Vegas, (2012) S1 E5:
In the flesh, (2013) E3:
Shetland (2013):
Another from ‘Shetland’. I like this because it shows clearly why it is unlikely we will ever see the end of the phone box and landline, at least in some parts of the world.
Cornwall, UK
We just spent a few days over in Cornwall.
Penzance
Sancreed
Gweek
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.
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.
Get wet
Phone box shower at The Wagons
There’s always a use for an old phone box…
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