Tag Archives: urban

Ireland

Here are some from about a year ago when we visited Ireland:

Cobh

Cobh

Cork

Cork

Dublin

Dublin

Galway

Galway

old style

old style

Istanbul, Turkey

We recently visited Istanbul and came across a real variety of phone boxes. I traveled here many years ago but it was the trip before my decision to photograph phone boxes on my travels so it was good to go back and make up for missed opportunities.

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I like this one hidden within a stall, behind the Blue Mosque…

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Me at the airport with the English phone box version in the background:

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Manchester

I visited Manchester yesterday…

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and here is a photo of street art that recently? appeared in Manchester, in the Northern Quarter. I think it was titled ‘Wonder woman’:

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Otford, Kent

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Spot the box…

Updating Eastern Europe

Here are some oldies that hadn’t made it onto the site yet. (Suzette stars in Budapest and it’s me in the middle box in Krakow.)

Hungary, Budapest (1997?)

Hungary, Budapest (1997?)

Poland, Krakow (1997?)

Poland, Krakow (1997?)

Slovenia, Ljubljana

Slovenia, Ljubljana

Slovenia, Stanjel

Slovenia, Stanjel

France

We visited Normandy in November last year and here are some of the phones we came across…

Bayeux

Bayeux

Falaise

Falaise

Mont St Michel

Mont St Michel

St Malo

St Malo

Normandy bus stop

Normandy bus stop

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Kelvedeon Hatch nuclear bunker – Essex

Today we visited a nuclear bunker in Essex –Secret Nuclear Bunker. I emailed the owners and they kindly let us bring our dog Couscous with us. Very interesting stuff. Although the bunker was decommissioned in the early 1990s the feel is more 1970s or earlier – the digital equipment was removed at the end and most of what is on show is telephonic systems etc of an earlier time. Here is one of the switchboards, there were a number of them in the bunker.

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Rome, Italy

It seems that the Vatican have had a refit of their phone boxes. Here is a photo I took around 1998…
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And here is one from earlier this week (much more classy)…

A couple more from this week…
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USA

Stamford

Stamford

Russia

We recently spent a week in Russa, visiting Moscow and St Petersburg. I have a small selection of phone photos here which are to be expected but the combination of telephones and umbrellas is a little out of the ordinary…

Moscow Kremlin

Moscow Kremlin

Moscow GUM

Moscow GUM

Moscow

Moscow

Moscow

Moscow

St Petersburg

St Petersburg

St Petersburg

St Petersburg

Political History Museum, St Petersburg

Political History Museum, St Petersburg