Plumstead Common Box

[chriskingbees]

Not sure I should do this, but what a lovely old picture to mull over - Old colour pic from 1968

http://www.flickr.com/photos/50780708@N02/5167061595/#


KB

[galacticprobe]

Wow! Judging from the blue panes in the lower center part of the windows I'd say this was a real Police Box (when there was still a few left out there).

Great photo, KB!

Dino.

[deck5]

If you search his photo stream for "police box", currently there are four such pics.

[hb88banzai]

Here's a much older picture for this box that cropped up in other threads (circa 1955):

[hb88banzai]

Current street view --



The distinctive building in the background --



And closeup of the Site --



Street View URL:  http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Old+Mill+Road,+Plumstead,+London&hl=en&sll=51.483468,0.078149&sspn=0.015821,0.032058&hnear=Old+Mill+Rd,+Royal+Borough+of+Greenwich,+London+SE18,+United+Kingdom&t=m&layer=c&cbll=51.481006,0.080448&panoid=yvn_GZzh4IDT4H_klcM54Q&cbp=12,153.37,,0,16.14&z=17

[hb88banzai]

Here are direct links to all three of the night pictures of the Plumstead Common Box taken in November of 1968 that are on John A King's Flickr photostream --

http://www.flickr.com/photos/50780708@N02/5167061595/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/50780708@N02/7982064462/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/50780708@N02/5167859688/

[hb88banzai]

Found a new photo of this Box, from what appears to be some time in the 1960s --



Blowup of the Box --