Police boxes

Goonerhater

Anyone actually remember these ? you know the Dr Who TARDIS? the only one i remember was in Barnehurst Road, it was a game to kick door open as a kid and see if there was anyone in? sad to say it was nowhere as exciting inside as the Tardis. faded white paint, smelt of cigs and had a shelf a stool and an old backerlight phone.

nolly

i used to walk into my wardrobe thinking i would go into the lion witch and the wardrobe carry on,i ended up butting my head and getting a shiner.

T_C_E

Like these GH? unfortunately I do remember them :(


http://www.police-box.co.uk/

Tavern

There is one at the Valley near the away end!lol!

Goonerhater

there is of course one outside TV centre.

March51

Yes indeed, there was one on Wrotham Road, Gravesend on the right as you drove into the town, a bit before the Woodlands Hotel. I remember it because when I smashed my dad's car up on the nearby crossroads in '64 the copper that turned up summoned assistance from it (he was on a pushbike). Got done £25 for driving without due care etc. The old man wasn't impressed either!!

JorgeCosta

There used to be a small one on the corner of Trafalgar Square near South Africa house.

ken from bexley

There was one in Greenwich park flower garden a year or so ago...
and photographed this presenter in November at tvc.......
http://www.flickr.com/photos/52647217@N00/page4/

March51

I haven't seen many AA/RAC boxes about lately either.

RalphMilnesgut

[cite]Posted By: JorgeCosta[/cite]There used to be a small one on the corner of Trafalgar Square near South Africa house.

There still is. It is inside a stone pillar that resembles te rest of the masonary on the square.

Henry Irving

that's actually a police station rather that a box.

Smallest in the world. There for processing arrests at demos.

Was a police box in abbey wood village back in the 60s

JorgeCosta

[cite]Posted By: RalphMilnesgut[/cite]

[cite]Posted By: JorgeCosta[/cite]There used to be a small one on the corner of Trafalgar Square near South Africa house.

There still is. It is inside a stone pillar that resembles te rest of the masonary on the square.

Nice piece of spotting there young man.

[cite]Posted By: Henry Irving[/cite]that's actually a police station rather that a box.

Smallest in the world. There for processing arrests at demos.

Is it a real Tardis? You couldn't process many people in there!

Badger

Used to be one at Bickley point.

Big William

The worlds smallest police station was on Spike Milligans Q, this consisted of a copper with a dolls house on his head. When I were a nipper there was a Tardis style police box on Brampton Road where the road forks as you approach Bostall Heath.

Off_it

[cite]Posted By: Goonerhater[/cite]Anyone actually remember these ? you know the Dr Who TARDIS? the only one i remember was in Barnehurst Road, it was a game to kick door open as a kid and see if there was anyone in? sad to say it was nowhere as exciting inside as the Tardis. faded white paint, smelt of cigs and had a shelf a stool and an old backerlight phone.

Someone had shat in there?

Lewis Coaches

Remember a police box at the junction of Sidcup by-pass and Perry Street,which was still there well into the 70s anyone that had to visit Queen Marys Hospital or the boys school may recall this.As a young boy sat beside this box watching
the London to Mexico car ralley go by .A certain Jimmy Greaves was one of the contestants.

pickwick

There was one on commercial road in the 1970's just the other side of the Blackwall Tunnel only time I have ever seen a 'real' one.

ColinTat

Haven't been up to Edinburgh for a while but they still had them a while back in some cities. Turned them into information centers if I remember rightly.

RedZed333

According to a recent Echo article the first police box in England was in Sunderland...

SoundAsa£

My local one, for many a year, was outside Torridon Road Library in Catford...near Sandhurst Road School.Disappeared circa 1963/64......Maybe Dr Who flew it away.................................... at least I'd like to think so.

thai malaysia addick

There used to a police box in Charlton Road opposite the Rectory Field (roughly).

ValleyGary

Not a Police Box but my uncle who is ex-OB for the Royal Family, told me that there is a police station in Wellington Arch. Not sure if he's winding me up or not.

kodfish

Used to be one near the second hand book shop in Blackheath.

clive the addick

there still is one in earls court road , by the station , it is the only one left in london

Northern_Monkey

I think there's still one by the town hall in Sheffield

mistrollingin

Used to be one on Hurst Road, Sidcup opposite Penhill Road.

wickford

There used to be one at the bottom of Sydenham Hill just up from Hornimans Museum in Forest Hill and don't get me started on the horse troughs!

Weegie Addick

[cite]Posted By: ColinTat[/cite]Haven't been up to Edinburgh for a while but they still had them a while back in some cities. Turned them into information centers if I remember rightly.

There's one in the middle of Buchanan St, the main shopping St in Glasgow. Used as a kiosk to sell coffee.

SoundAsa£

[cite]Posted By: ValleyGary[/cite]Not a Police Box but my uncle who is ex-OB for the Royal Family, told me that there is a police station in Wellington Arch. Not sure if he's winding me up or not.

That's true...though I very much doubt it's functioning nowadays.

Miserableoldgit

http://homepages.eee.strath.ac.uk/r.w.stewart/boxes.pdf

T

Wellington arch is now a venue you can hire for corporate dinners, weddings etc...

http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/server/show/nav.955/imageIndex/11