For this task the contestants had to completely hide themselves in the phone box, so that nothing of them could be seen by the time the clock stopped:
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Junior Good Citizens
I came across an article in an edition of the ‘BT Today’ magazine, dated August 1991. Here, children (very cool kids from their fashion sense) are being taught how to be good citizens by using the phone to call the police when they come across trouble.
Ahead of myself
I recently came across the following post on FB:
Just now, as I was bringing an old suitcase downstairs, I realised I had placed this same image front and centre on a hatbox that I had covered with postcards (c.1992):
I think I might have done this c. 1992, meaning I was getting ahead of myself. I didn’t start photographing phoneboxes until c. 1997.
Cat in a box
Found in the archives
I came across an exciting find in the archives recently – a tv script from June 1992 entitled ‘BT Payphones’. Written by Crystal Images, likely for the tv show Tomorrow’s World, it includes scenes extolling the virtues of the payphone and selling it’s latest development, such as multiple payment methods. It seems that by the early 1990s our favourite red box was already seeen as ‘quaint and traditional – a unique symbol of Britain’s heritage’.
Here are a couple of screen shots:
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My Portuguese textbook
Snail attraction
Here is a cutting from issue 400 (2020) of the Fortean Times:
Just a memory
I enjoyed this FB post. It’s definately something I’ve aluded to – the idea that phone boxes remain useful as film and tv plot devices but are disappearing in the real world.
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