now and then

[chriskingbees]

Hi All
Found a few new (Old) photos of interest courtesy of Colin John the glass man;
A couple of favourites;


A nice early ('96) Earl's Court



This baby again, could it be Northwood? or maybe Gillingham in Kent?



A Barnet I found on FlickR images that I've not seen before



And this shed style is real I'm informed and is living in a yard near here and has apparently been sold to an enthusiast. Any one know who?
Many thanks as always
KB

[ironageman]

Nice pictures! Out of curiosity, why do you suggest Gillingham? Anyhow, I don't think that the baby is at Northwood; there's a picture of Northwood police station on the police website and their 'police box' is a standard police post (as far as I can tell).

The tatty shed is indeed a police box; the poor thing apparently spent a decade under a broken gutter in a salvage yard (I.M. Forman's, possibly), then its remains were sold a year or so ago to a chap who has a kiosk website. It's supposedly a Coventry or Norfolk box. As the only Norfolk box I know of looks nothing like this, and the Coventry box at Avoncroft looks exactly like it, I'd go with the Coventry theory...

[chriskingbees]

Hi All
The shed box is at the moment still with the redkiosk guy (I know him well)  but he has recently sold it on to a private client whom I don't know.
In the meantime a few more to mull over;





An early Crich with nice dark paint




Another wartime sandbag special




A grainy South London tram but our friend is  in there




Now this is TOOTING Broadway and though mainly obscured it seems worth including for the location.


And last a couple of real oddities!





The bottom one must be Scottish if the lamp is anything to go by

Pictures courtesy of Colin John except Tooting
Many thanks
KB

[Teletran]

Note phone panel colour in second picture.

[davewho7]

The second to last is in Brighton, which i am only a few miles away from.
Always remered this from when i was little, never seen it used. But even more amased it's still there, ouside one of my favorite pubs when i was at college. The King and Queen at the Steine gardens. I did think it may have something to do with the old trams that used this route?.

[mantamatt]

Nice one KB, I particularly like the early Crich photo you can see from the base it's only just been deposited there and I recognise that shade of dark blue. Some of the boxes in the other pictures look like they're a lighter shade of blue.

[dalethetimelord]

The last pic is a Dundee box, the smallest of the three sorts that were available - I've got an old programme on tape about Scottish Police Police Boxes, and did a nice section on the three boxes.

As for the Brighton box - it's not, AFAIK, a Police Box... for a start it's far too short!  Also, it's just over the road from me now....

[ironageman]

More nice pictures! It's interesting how light in colour the London boxes were in the thirties, not the dark Metropolitan blue that we've got used to seeing, so I'm feeling more forgiving of Crich and their Tardis-blue paint.

I think that the Brighton thing is something to do with controlling a fountain - does this make sense?

I hadn't seen the little Dundee one before. Fab stuff. Presumably that's one of the little Emergency Call boxes; as Dale says, there were two other sizes of police box in Dundee (four person Section,and two person Beat boxes):

[policeboxnut]

I've got a theory - I've just been looking at the pics on the other side of the Barnet box in its heyday and I reckon it's an updated MK 1 - correct me if I'm wrong...all the windows look Mk 1 ish

[ironageman]

If you mean that it originally had a sign below the telephone door then yes, absolutely, and you can just make out the filled-in screw holes on this panel:

if you sort of flog your imagination a bit...

[policeboxnut]

That's good - i thought i was going strange...plus the phone panel door itself looks a bit odd too.
Not that it matters now mind you.

[ironageman]

As Chris'KingBee has begun the Frith-archive raid... here are a couple more from that source:

Coulsdon


Drift Bridge, which I think is (just) in Surrey:


Again, it's a game of spot-the-Tardis.

[chriskingbees]

Hi All
Thanks for posting these pics Ironage.
Great pics for me these as both were in my area when I was young. Drift bridge is indeed in Surrey on the road from Banstead to Epsom and Coulsdon; outside the Red Lion. I remember both of them and the Coulsdon area  hasn't changed much if you discount knocking the pub down two years ago. A massive new relief road is being constructed there now so maybe the traffic will ease again.
One pic I'm trying to find is Thornton Heath clock tower, Parchmore road. as there was definately a tardis there at one time and get this. The door was flat and unpainted for a while, a very familiar set up. I,ve found a Thornton Heath pond pic but mislaid it, where yet another one stood. Obviously due to my age I remember several boxes and Croydon and the local area was well served once. The search continues
Many thanks
KB

[chriskingbees]

Good spot Ironage , the door does look low and it's the not the scan cos' the pic's like it too

[policeboxnut]

Maybe it's the one that was supposed to be fitted to the Crich box only the other way round!!!