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…
Tag Archives: heritage and history
Battle
We took a trip to Battle today (think Norman Conquest 1066AD) and came across a phone box tucked into history:
Liverpool Cathedral
This box can be found inside Liverpool Cathedral, England. It was placed here as a memorial to Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, the designer of the red telephone box (thanks to Rodhullandemu for the image, via Wikipedia).
Local history
I was working in the stores for the Bexleyheath Heritage Trust yesterday and came across this old telephone switchboard…
History
While in Bern (lovely city) we visited the Museum of Communications. Here are some shots of historical phone equipment.
Art and the phone
New York City pay phones to take users back to 1993
The city pay phones are being used to promote a new art exhibit recounting the year 1993 in New York’s history…
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.
Off topic – sort of
This article isn’t exactly about phone boxes but the first paragraph does indicate how they were once an integral part of life…
How a TARDIS could help police
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