Hanwell Police Station Box

[hb88banzai]

Uxbridge Road in the forecourt of the closed Hanwell Police Station - T65




Current street view --

[hb88banzai]

Straight on view of the Box site --



Street View URL:  http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=station+road,+Hanwell,+London&hl=en&ll=51.508694,-0.338957&spn=0.004594,0.008948&sll=51.508929,-0.351434&sspn=0.00832,0.017424&hnear=Station+Rd,+W7+3JE,+United+Kingdom&t=m&layer=c&cbll=51.508694,-0.338957&panoid=eRxzmCoPzTI3g-SV2CGueg&cbp=12,347.65,,1,-0.46&z=17

Box would have been right behind were the telephone kiosk is now.

[hb88banzai]

A blowup of the Box from the original photo to aid comparison --

[Volpone]

OK. That photo forces my next question:  I've seen a couple builds where the center bottom window pane is some kind of tinted glass--yet from what I've seen of blueprints there is no such detail.  But it is pretty clear in that photo that the bottom center pane is different from all the others.  It almost looks like the top panes are pebbled glass if anything.  Furthermore, the side (and presumably back) windows don't appear to have the dark pane.  Any ideas? 

[hb88banzai]

Answer is here:

http://tardisbuilders.com/index.php?topic=3755.msg44675#msg44675

[hb88banzai]

A higher resolution version of this photo as scanned by Tim Clayton (trc11), just compressed a bit more to fit the Forum limits --



Cropped on the Box and at original compression rate to allow it to resize in one's browser for a better view --



Because of the odd combinations of features on this Box (part classic Mark 2, part Mark 3, and in T Division no less), I can only conclude that it was a refurbished Box installed as a replacement for the middle model Mark 3 that should have been erected here.

Very, very odd.

[mikey]

Not a great quality image but I'm posting it because I think it is unusual to see a newly installed box being painted.



Caption reads

"A view of Hanwell police station with a painter putting the finishing touches to the Police emergency telephone box."

Published Nov 25 1933