We took a visit to Bletchley Park over the weekend. Can highly recommend it. Here in a corner by the Mansion I found a phone…
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Marriage proposal
The Evening Standard (15 June 2015, p.3) reports of US tourist Stephen Jensen proposing to his girlfriend Megan Shuldes in from of Big Ben (I had just visited Big Ben with family). But for our purposes it was in front of a classic red, telephone box.
More tv
A favourite character of mine lies dying while the phone rings in the foreground.
Followed in the next series with a flashback to the past and a ‘phreaker’ in action (for more details on phreaking -the manipulation of phone call routing – click here)…
Island humour
False history
So this phone box never existed but in another reality (thanks to Phillip K. Dick and ‘The Man in the High Castle’)…
New uses for a phone box
I like the creativity that phone boxes can bring out in scriptwriters.
In Person of Interest (Season 3 Episode 1) we find a new use for the phone box – ring a specific number and the back panels opens to become the door to a dodgy strip joint, frequented by sailors and cops…
Then in Episode 5 a phone box is being used to stash some cassettes.
Battle
We took a trip to Battle today (think Norman Conquest 1066AD) and came across a phone box tucked into history:
Vienna
We took a short trip to Vienna recently. I love the 1970’s style of box found out at the cemetery and in one of the museums. There was even a nod to the iconic London red box.
Iconic London
This shot was used to set the scene in London, in an episode of ‘Bones’ from season 4:
Classic film
I am happy to add one of the most iconic films of all time to my blog. I hadn’t realised there was a phone box in the games room of the Overlook Hotel.
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