Tag Archives: urban

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

Liverpool Cathedral

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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).

Smithfields, London

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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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