Non-TARDIS Police Boxes

[Mark]

....then again, the interior picture looks like a kitchen area, perhaps they are plates [presumably held in plave with some other world gravitaional forcefield :-)].

[ironageman]

As for the colour question - it seems that the Lancashire ones were green:

http://archive.thisislancashire.co.uk/1999/12/3/748893.html

[Mark]

Green and blue seem to be the popular colour schemes here then.

Now the use of blue seems a natural choice, boys in blue, police car lights, thin blue line etc, but I wonder why green came into the police box plan?

[ironageman]

Red was popular too of course (Glasgow and Newport), but that has a sort of emergency logic to it.

And - I came across a picture of a Sheffield box looking even more Northampton-ish in the window area (bigger squares):

[Mark]

ooooo, nice find Ironage.

(Still don't like that lamp!)

It may just be me, but towards the back of the box, on the roof there is (in my eyes) something.

It could be a chimney (some Sheffield boxes did have coal fires apparently!) or maybe it's a "standard" Police Box lamp, and the crappy goose neck lamp is just for illumination?

Doe the source of this piccy say which area it was in?

[ironageman]

Oh, wow, I think you're right! Yes, I've seen a picture of a police box with a chimney. This one was at Hatfield House Lane.

[Mark]

At least on Sheffield box lost it's life coz of these fire places!

[ironageman]

On a Sheffield - Northampton theme... I think that the Derbyshire boxes were similar:



Hmm... it's a nice design... and a full-size one would be a practical sort of garden shed... and it's what the Tardis ought to look like if lots of planets have a north (or a north Midlands, anyhow).

[Mark]

Yet another great find Ironage. Does your computer have some special TARDIS/Police Box locating device because more often than not I end up with stuff I've seen before when I have a Google!

That does look remarkable simillar doesn't it? Even down to the oblong thing (vent?) at the bottom of the centre panel. (Dunno what it is, never noticed one on the remaining Sheffield box)

Once again, is that something lamp like on the roof, towards what I think is the front, or is it just the trees playing tricks?

[ironageman]

Ha, I no longer count how much time I spend googling 'police box' and all its variants; it's like how much money I spend on CDs, it's something better left unknown.  Well, trees must get pretty bored just standing there and they could get to playing practical jokes, but I thought it was a lamp too.

Have you noticed that there seem to be two different depths of these boxes? There seem to be boxes with two of the three side panels narrower, making the box square in cross section perhaps, and boxes with all three equal.

[Mark]

Pretty incosiderate of the photographers to place bloody great trees behind the boxes if you ask me!

Not sure about having smaller depths though, that would make the interior almost unbarably crampt.

[ironageman]

It would. They'd still be bigger than a Met box, though.

[ironageman]

Here's what I mean: the tall panels can be narrower or the same width as the middle panel with the window:

[Mark]

Sorry, Ironage, misunderstood what you meant!

In that case, the remianing box is of the smaller type, and is actually quite spacious (although today it was full of traffic cones!)

Perhaps the larger rectangle base boxes were the ones fabled to have a stove and sink in? this would tie in with the possible cimney on the picture you last posted. Possibly this is why there is the square vent-thing on the side, but not on the remaining one?

One final thought though, the existing box in Sheffield is tucked into a corner of the town hall and if it was of the other type would have jutted out, perhaps this one was specially shortened to completment the architecture?

[ironageman]

I like the vent theory. Perhaps they used the cut-down style boxes in more crowded areas? Here's another one: