Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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The post box must surely be the last of the Victorian era still around and in everyday use?
Up Connaught today.
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Just had some time away in Blackpool. I don`t think even London have this amount of traditional boxes anymore.
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Guest 693- Registered: 12 Nov 2009
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The Old Post Office in Blackpool. Blackpool Corporation refused a planning application to have them removed and the pavement widened, so instead the road was narrowed and the pavement widened, thus preserving the telephone boxes. Good thing, too!
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Interesting that Andy, just round the corner, there`s no pavement at all. It`s a bus route, all bricked over with fountains of water along the way. Although very familiar with Blackpool from the past, it took me a while in some parts to find what had gone and what was new.
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One other bit of British red which definately deserves a place. Lovingly restored, and hired out for wedding`s etc.
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Wow! The old 22 routemaster service (Putney - Piccadilly Circus). Many happy times on the #22, usually after Chelsea had won at home! (Quicker than the tube, despite having to walk to New King's Road to catch it!)
A genuine British icon.
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Glad you liked it Andy, better get the rear end.
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Lets not forget the traditional British copper. Eastern docks end today, with a few sunbathers, complete with cans of lager. (Out of view).
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One of my favourite pics - the Cruise Terminal
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Brian Dixon,
You will be glad to learn that the red telephone boxes are made in Kilmarnock in Scotland, or were made in scotland. I do believe production has ceased.
I used to work for BT when the programme of change was introduced back in the eighties. At the time the recovered boxes were taken to the BT yard in Canterbury. Bt had a problem disposing of the boxes for a long time, in fact you could have bought one for£200 but not many were sold so we had to smash them up and they were consequently sold as scrap metal. Now one would probably have to raise a mortgage to buy one!!
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Colin, where that phonebox stands shown on post 1, there is a monument to the Rifles, and hearsay has it that four British guards have been seen standing there, and that they have actually chased some people returning to the Winston Hotel late at night!
Hobnailed boots, iron-shod, clattering through the street, harsh shouts, brandishing rifle and bayonet!
Let's hope they will do the same to anyone trying to take that phonebox away!
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jimmy long,i know where they were made,i was having a joke with colin in which i put my hands up to.
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Jimmy, very interesting about where the phone boxes were actually made and also the scrapping of them. Very sad, and I`m sure if they were being replaced today, there wouldn`t be one left for the scrapman.
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No fried bread and black pudding on that brekkie Colin. You were short changed methnks. Presentation isn't too clever either.
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Ah, it has the beans and that whats counts.
You need white pudding to make it a full Irish. I am veggie and Irish - a rare breed!!!!
Guest 693- Registered: 12 Nov 2009
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Where was that bloody awful breakfast dished up, Colin? Burnt egg, swimming in beans juice and seemingly presented by a trainee in his/her first week into the job. I'd be horrified if that was dished up in front of me!
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Sorry about this Andy but it was when I was in Blackpool the other week, hence my reluctance to serve it up on here right away. It was one of the worst breakfast`s I`d ever had. I`m sure not typical of the north west though.
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Come on Lads it did have beans,and it is beans that keep me going.
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