The phone box inside the fabulous Eltham Palace, London.
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Bletchley Park
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…
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.
Phone box library
As a former librarian I warm to this story.
Phone box library closure threat angers residents
Book lovers who turned a red phone box into a makeshift library are angry after BT threatened to shut it down due to health and safety fears…
Japan
If I had a phone of the year competition this would be the winner:
Fujiya Hotel, Hakone
Others from our recent holiday to Japan:
Enoshima, Buddhist temple
Enoshima
Kamakura
On the shinkansen back to Tokyo
Tokyo
Tokyo
Tokyo
Change with the times
When was the last time you used a payphone? For New Yorkers, the answer is probably one they can’t remember, so the city today announced it will replace those payphones with up to 10,000 new kiosks armed with free gigabit Wi-Fi…
Nunhead Cemetery, London
Don’t get locked in after dark…do you really want to trust that this phone works?
Recent travels
We visited Australia recently, stopping at Dubai airport and getting out at Singapore for a few days on the return leg. The Dubai airport phones seem bright and shiny and new, Sydney provides you with a map of the city, Melbourne have a colour thing going on with pink and orange shelters and Singapore airport caters for the disabled:
Dubai airport
Sydney
Melbourne
Melbourne
Melbourne museum
Singapore airport
Chinatown, Singapore
An extra from GOMA, Brisbane…
Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
Shanghai, China
Two from Matthew’s visit not so long ago:
Some random old photos
These are the last of my older photos that should have been uploaded long ago…
Cairo, Egypt (I think)
Hong Kong
Albufeural, Portugal