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Who on earth is Ward Westwater?

He's looked in occasionally for many years: http://tardisbuilders.com/index.php?action=profile;u=188, though not since March.
 
I’m still here. I read the posts but don’t always contribute. I have a restored box going back on the streets of Glasgow next month. Watch this space!
 
Ward and his wife Caroline are personal heroes of mine. I think he got in touch with me in 1999 or so when I first started the police box website. Crikey that was 19 years ago! I've worked with him on and off for many years and we're still friends on facebook even though I've all but retired from police box hunting. When I found the mk3s (i don't know what you call them now?) owned by Thames water I got straight on the phone to Ward. Same with the Crich box when that was under threat of demolition because of the concrete cancer. It took ages to get the renovation of that sorted. There were one or two we couldn't get to in time - there was a wooden one Guy Smith had in his garden was too far gone to be saved. I'd find them, get in touch in with the owners and then hand them over to Ward to do his magic. He would do everything possible to sort out saving anything we found. Without Ward there certainly wouldn't be any McKenzie Trench type boxes left. Odd that the article doesn't mention the two boxes at Avoncroft as they're Ward's as well. He offered me one once for helping with tracking some of the weirder ones down - he offered to arrange to have a crane lower it into my garden but my other half said absolutely no way! Think I still have photos of the Guy Smith box - the likes of which I've never seen since - they may be here already, but I don't think I've seen them.
 
This is the only shot I have of it on my computer, but when we were looking into whether it could be saved, he sent me an envelope of pics from several different angles.
guysmith.jpg I'll see if I can find them.
 
peted said:
I've worked with [Ward] on and off for many years and we're still friends on facebook even though I've all but retired from police box hunting.
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Any chance Ward is more active on facebook?
I've tried off an on to contact him over the years. I've had my Speakerphone Panel now for nearly 5 years, and one of his boxes in Glasgow has a bracket I'm desperate to know more about so I can duplicate the parts for the Panel I have.

My speakerphone panel: http://tardisbuilders.com/index.php?topic=5076.0
Here is the Bracket I'm talking about on my flicker site. I believe I saw it inside the Wilson Street Box in 2012. 

HB and I have located Blueprints for everything else, except that Bracket in the Telecom Heritage Group Archives. So I am very keen to get details on it. 

peted said:
When I found the mk3s (i don't know what you call them now?) owned by Thames water I got straight on the phone to Ward.
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These are called Mark 5's now, the latest version of the Boxes. HB might be more specific, but that's the general designation now.

Did anything every happen with the four Boxes at Crossness?
I remember that we wanted to get out there to get newer pictures of them all but nothing ever happened as far as I recall.
 
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