Haight Ashbury
By the Port
Design aspects
In my artefacts lecture today we had a visit from Bill Sillar. He enlightened us on the origins for the design of the red UK phone box (among many other things). Giles Gilbert Scott based it on the John Soane Mausoleum in St Pancras Old Churchyard.
Soane Mausoleum
source: UCL Dept Earth Sciences
As a class we recently visited LARC where the original architectual model for the red phone box is kept. It’s about 1 metre in height. Annoyingly I didn’t take a camera.
Hong Kong
Here are a couple from my husbands recent stint in Hong Kong.
Kowloon
A classic car show
Japan
My husband has been in Tokyo again for business and has sent me a few shots for the blog. The first is at Enoshima, then Gora, Hase and Maronouchi:
Tripoli
We visited Libya on a short tour to see the archaeological sites. I couldn’t find any phone boxes but they do have phone shops.
Tripoli
Phone shop sign
Venice
I visited Venice many years ago, in February, with a couple of friends.
Chicago
The Loop
Lincoln Park Conservatory
I was watching a movie on tv the other night and one of the characters got on the Loop at the same spot where I took the top photo. (Kind of sad that I notice these things.)
