Bristol Police Box

[Teppic]

And here it is flipped, so that the top signs with POLICE on them are the right way round.

[mikey]

The original is some kind of metal plate with the image engraved/etched into it. I assume the plate was used in a printing press, hence it is flipped the wrong way round.

[mikey]

This is a positive print taken from the metal plate and pasted to the back of it. Thank you @dr hue for the excellent photo editing. Much more exciting than anything else that's happening today.

[Jam Jar Lurker]

This is a positive print taken from the metal plate and pasted to the back of it. Thank you @dr hue for the excellent photo editing. Much more exciting than anything else that's happening today.

Oh, is something else happening today?

Francïs

[mikey]

Nothing worth mentioning

[lym]

Been looking back at this and I noticed something interesting that diverges significantly from the Met Mark 1s: there's only two steps under the lintels and the dividing strip only goes up to the steps (like the Brachacki box) rather than all the way up to the lintels!

Wish we could see the front, I imagine there'd probably be some wacky stuff going on there too.

[lym]

Just saw this and about had a heart attack! Was reverse image searching the Ashcombe Avenue box to see if there was a higher resolution anywhere and was brought to a page which happened to feature this image. Seems that they were green and had two front panels, too...



Turns out it's been on the internet since at least 2014 and flew under our radar: https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/ipaprocessing/2014/11/its-bigger-on-the-inside/

Also the fencing around this photo makes me believe that this indeed may be the same Sea Mills box which kicked off this topic?

[peterjohn]

Brilliant find  Lym......Also some other good "boxes" on that page (South Shields is still my second Favourite!) 

[Angelus Lupus]

Green and cream... that's an unexpected livery on a near-metbox type, although that puts it in the same colours as Sheffield. 
Interesting that linked site gives colours for other boxes, including a maroon door for Bootle (might be worth cross-posting for reference?)

[mikey]

Amazing @lym didn't expect to see another photo so soon! I think the thing on the door is the fire alarm.

Looks like there is some flashing above the police sign.

Can anyone make out the location of the last box/pillar on the page?

[peterjohn]

Sea Mills Square - 23 Jul 1972...What is that I can see straight through the Bus doors and out the other side...... 

[Darren451]

From the Bristol Museums website December 2021:

https://www.bristolmuseums.org.uk/blog/have-you-seen-the-tardis/

"From 1938 there were numerous reports of peeling paint, leaks, damaged or sticking doors and broken locks. The roofs were concrete, supported on wooden pillars which were prone to rot. Deterioration led to the decision in 1944 to replace all 13 with smaller police pillars.

Not all of Bristol's police boxes seem to have vanished right away and at least one was repurposed.

Residents in Sea Mills remember their old police box being used by the local lollipop lady to store her lollipop as late as the 1970s. Or perhaps it was the Doctor?

Information about the placement of police boxes in Bristol can be found in document Pol/SP/4/2 at Bristol Archives."

[Darren451]

Published locations of the initial 12 here in 1932

A couple of views of the Cheddar Grove police box from the Historic England aerial photography website, on the right of the green with a pale roof...

[mikey]

Posted today by Bristol Archives on twitter

https://twitter.com/bristolarchives/status/1727694146385646049

Ref https://archives.bristol.gov.uk/records/08432

[lym]

Mad that all of this info has been rediscovered in just the past couple of years, when it seemed like Trench-like boxes outside of London/Glasgow (and occasionally surrounding areas) were just a myth. Makes me very hopeful to find out what other oddities are discovered next!