Retail therapy
The Lego store in Leicester Square (‘i’ newspaper 26/12/16):
More on tv…
This was a recent episode from ‘Arrow’ set in the USA. So why is there a classic UK red phone box in the background?
From ‘The Code’ season 2. A classic shot of the Queensland landscape…
and a classic movie – ‘The Apartment’.
Phone boxes in the press
Evening Standard: 6 December 2016
Still very relevant
BT may be removing phone boxes in some parts of the UK but they are installing new ones in others parts. Today, in Bloomsbury, central London, I walked past a very new building belonging to the University of London. It looks like fancy student accommodation. The foyer is bright and shiny and in the centre, standing proud, is a gleaming red phone box:
Architectural influences
Private Eye, 2 Sep 216, p.28 (Funny Old World: Victor Lewis Smith)
New viewing
Adam Curtis has released a new documentary called ‘HyperNormalisation‘. I highly recommend it. Here is a screen shot of a phone box in Russia – not in working order but I love the architecture around it.
New York City, USA
In New York we went to the Intrepid Museum which has a submarine on site. There are loads of phones scattered throughout the sub and they had an example of a sonar phone. So not phone boxes as such but still…
Sonar phone
Growler sub
Growler sub
Other NYC phones:
Frick Collection house phone
New York street
Remember where it started
I visited the Sir John Soane’s Museum in London recently and was reminded of why this blog exists in the first place:
This is a wonderful museum and I can’t believe I have lived in London for almost 20 years and never visited before!
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