Coventry Boxes

[mikey]

Thought Coventry should have it's own tread here.





These two are probably familiar this one below (box 10) is on Flickr and is apparently in a private collection it's been beautifully restored.



Then there is this, I'm not sure how to describe it...Love the font

 

[mikey]

Some vintage pics of Coventry boxes when they where first installed. The surviving boxes above In the tread must be later models or were adapted with a gable end, facing front roof.



The above photos date from 1928 and the one on the left with the door shut was located at the corner of Greyfriars Green

 

[mikey]

West Midlands Police Museum rescuing a Coventry box today, bringing the total number of these surviving boxes to four, that I know of.

 

[mikey]

First clear old picture of a Coventry box from 1962. Hales Street with Sandwell Gate in the background. Seems to have had new windows fitted.

 

[mikey]

Clearer copy of the image further up the tread.

 

[SteveR]

I have been working on restoring a Coventry police box over the last year for West Midlands police museum and it is due to be reassembled at the new museum in February 2022. I just need to source a light for the top of it. If anybody has any ideas or can help please get in touch.

 

[mikey]

Another surviving Coventry box! This one looks to be in the style the the original 1928 boxes. Rather than the post war versions with the gable end facing the front.

 

[Andrew Harvey]

Oh 'Hello my dear old thing!' Thats lovely!

 

[jpittsta]

I live in coventry and was wondering where in coventry this is?

 

[mikey]

It’s not in Coventry anymore I’m afraid. Privately owned and in a garden.

 

[mikey]

Another one. I think the high number of surviving examples of this style of box is due to them being a post war replacement design. The photographic evidence seems to back this up as you only find this model in later period images.

 

[Andrew Harvey]

Poor thing. Needs a bit of love doesn't it?