now and then

[chriskingbees]

Hi All
Thought you might like to see an image from google (I'm sure you've all seen before) and a pic I took on Easter Monday. This is Carshalton in Surrey where, in the early 60s, I would assist ol' Grandad on the milk round and fantasise about the interior of this beautiful specimen. I was amazed at how little has changed
Many thanks
Chris

 

[showstopper]

wow still looks like a place for the ol girl was this box cruely smashed ? or did she dematerilise

 

[chriskingbees]

This one I like it's Charing Cross St, no after pic though

 

[ironageman]

Oh, nice, I hadn't seen that picture before. They do seem to have put them near railway stations; evidently there was one near King's Cross. Are my eyes tired or is the door a bit low on that box?

 

[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!!!

 

[chriskingbees]

Hi All
Found this one of Hayes Middlesex on webshots. Again they all look slightly different.

 

[mark]

Nice picture.

The abandoned bicycle does kinda look a little odd though...

 

[chriskingbees]

Thanks Mark
We think the cyclist is probably using the phone in the K6, what a sad indictment of the times that you couldn't contemplate such an action nowadays. I used to go in shops and such and happily leave the ol' bone shaker outside safe in the knowledge it would still be there upon my return
KB

 

[chriskingbees]

Hi All
Here's a still from Behemoth the Sea Monster (1959). It's London SE 18 Ferry Approach just before the said beast attacks the Woolwich ferry. Currently showing on Actionmax Sky movies it's not that bad and the monster is very reminiscent of the Zygon Loch Ness gambit when it's in the water. Once on land it changes to stop motion type Harryhausenesque model. Maybe they found some money in a drawer
KB



Is the lady saying "Look! Isn't the lamp tall on that police box"

 

[mark]

Perhaps she is saying "There!!! I told you I wasn't imagining it! That police box just appeared from nowhere, it wasn't there this morning!"

 

[bach4me]

Or maybe:
"There! That strange man with the scarf went in there!"
"The man that offered you candy?"
"Yes! That one!"

-Benjamin  ;D

 

[chriskingbees]

Hi All
Three new ones for you to contemplate






This one has a familiar looking building behind it?

 

[mark]

I've seen the last one, but where are the other two from?

That trolley bus route must have been great for TARDIS spotting!

 

[chriskingbees]

The top two were found by my son many years ago on a trolleybus website I think. He is very good at seeking them out in all sorts of places

 

[ironageman]

Nice finds! Apparently a Tardis-style police box is seen in use near the end of the 1939 Will Hay film "Ask a Policeman" - anyone got it on DVD by any obscure chance?

 

[policeboxnut]

If anyone's seen Alfie with Michael Caine, there's a police box in that just after he picks up Jane Asher at a roadside cafe. I'll see if I can get a screen grab...

 

[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