We visited the Commercial Transport Museum in Leyland over the weekend to find a telephone box on display.
I like the rules for omnibus passengers – small dogs allowed but no manspreading, for instance…
Category Archives: Geography
China’s replicas of Western towns
Cian Oba-Smith explores the phenomenon of Chinese copycat architecture.
Over the last fifteen years, a large number of settlements have been built on the outskirts of cities like Shanghai and Hangzhou in China, to replicate Western metropolises. In one, Venice’s canals are reconstructed between Venetian-style buildings. In another, the Eiffel Tower has been reproduced in the centre of a network of mock Parisian streets. Elsewhere, the Western features are more subtle; the odd red phone box or Roman pillar nestled among Mandarin street signs…
Click through to the British Journal of Photography magazine to see the article.
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Tagged architecture, China, urban
Northern Ireland
Gravesend pier
Thanks to a reader who sent in the link below. Look to the older photograph that shows a phone box in a convenient spot by the Gravesend pier:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/kent/discover_kent/history/changing_places/gravesend_town_pier.shtml
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Athens
We spent a weekend in Athens recently, where phones are plentiful.
My favourite phone shot of the weekend, taken in the courtyard of the Byzantine and Christian Museum:
Dover, UK
Dover. Photograph: Yulia Reznikov/Moment Editorial/Getty Images
From an article in the Guardian on urban gardening renewal.
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