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Five years ago today, I embarked on a project to create photo composites placing police boxes back in their former locations across London and the Home Counties, which I called ‘Ghost Monuments’ – here are some of my favourites and here’s my website with the rest! https://www.ghostmonuments.co.uk/
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Here are my #GhostMonuments of the box, the first of which looks west, as in the video footage.
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With thanks to Thos Ribbits for pointing me in the direction of the video that this comes from (https://youtu.be/_Izqdy_nV_g), here's 1960s footage of police box S23 on Spur Road, near the junction with Stonegrove, Stanmore. #PoliceBoxes
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Really enjoyed the London Transport Museum #HiddenLondon tour of Kingsway Tram Subway yesterday, giving me an insight into the network of trams that offered affordable travel across London until the '50s. The subway connected the north and south networks. More on Flickr here: https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjAGxZZ
#TransportHistory #LondonPhotography #Trams #LondonTransportMuseum
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South East London bluebells at Eltham Park North.
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Dangit – forgot to include this random one from a day in Hampstead and Highgate last October. Another #GhostMonument of police box Y25 on Hampstead Lane, near the eastern exit of Kenwood House at the top of Hampstead Heath. It was in operation from 1 Apr 1934–19 Oct 1970.
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Here’s the Flickr album with maps http://bit.ly/ghost-monuments
And GMs on IG https://instagram.com/ghost_monuments/
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Here’s where you can find the Charlton Road and Woolwich Road ones. https://www.ghostmonuments.co.uk/greenwich
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Here’s where you can find the Tranquil Vale box on my website. https://www.ghostmonuments.co.uk/lewisham
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And skip forward to a mere three weeks ago for a #GhostMonuments erratum, box R3 on Woolwich Road. The surroundings have changed quite a bit since the box was in situ. I wasn’t satisfied with the first version of this one and I also placed it too far back from the road.
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Back to Tranquil Vale for another snowy police box site.
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Skip forward five months to last December and here’s the same site in the snow. In the C19th, St Pancras Station architect William Barlow lived in the Regency house that’s just visible beyond the tree on the right.
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Next, what’s now my nearest police box site, box R4 on Charlton Road. The box stood outside the Our Lady of Grace Catholic church from Nov 1934–Sep 1970. The church was only 28 years older than the police box.
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Back to scorched Blackheath for this week’s #GhostMonuments, starting on Tranquil Vale in Blackheath Village, outside of a lovely bookshop. The police box was in operation from Nov 1934 until Aug 1970.
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Here’s the Flickr album with maps http://bit.ly/ghost-monuments
And GMs on IG https://www.instagram.com/ghost_monuments/
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And here’s where you can find the Blackheath one https://www.ghostmonuments.co.uk/lewisham
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Here’s where you can find the Aldborough Hatch one https://www.ghostmonuments.co.uk/redbridge
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Here’s where you can find the Muswell Hill one https://www.ghostmonuments.co.uk/haringey
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Next week, sunshine and snow. Until then, here’s where you can find the Streatham box on my website https://www.ghostmonuments.co.uk/lambeth
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I moved to Blackheath last summer and so here’s a revisit to one of the local police box sites – R7, at the western edge of the heath. Remember how hot last summer was? The heath is usually green.
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I tell a lie—here’s another error corrected! I found a map I hadn’t had access to and spotted that I was a few feet out with this one on Painters Road, Aldborough Hatch. How else would I spend the #PlattyJoobs bank holiday than doing a quick trip to Redbridge to right a wrong?
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Next, a return to Muswell Hill and its bus terminus police box. I’d gone back to get better photos of the lantern that’s still on the roof to this day, and I don’t think I’ve shared before the new Ghost Monuments I captured at the same time.
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…What better way to improve it than to run a three-lane dual carriageway through it?
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The #GhostMonuments errata end with the corrected location of one of the earliest police box sites I captured (and got wrong)! When Peter Davison was growing up in Streatham in the 1950s, Streatham High Road was the busiest shopping street in south London…
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Here’s the Flickr album with maps http://bit.ly/ghost-monuments
And GMs on IG https://instagram.com/ghost_monuments/
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Here’s where you can find the Borough of Wandsworth one. https://www.ghostmonuments.co.uk/wandsworth
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Next week, one more Streatham box and then to Blackheath. Until then, here’s where you can find the Lambeth boxes on my website. https://www.ghostmonuments.co.uk/lambeth
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Finally, to the land of Yetis on the loo: Tooting Bec. The first time around (possibly not wanting to contend with the post-production challenge 😅), I placed the police box closer to the road. Instead, the site is now lurking in the bushes.
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Next, to Streatham Hill at the junction with Christchurch Road for another mistake caused by road widening. Not understanding the map tool well enough, I placed this one on the pavement the first time around. In fact, the site is now in the middle of the enchanting dual carriageway.
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Next, to Tulse Hill where the road *has* widened in the last 50 years 😒. I placed the police box on the pavement the first time around, but its former site is actually now at the edge of the road. The bank building outside of which it used to stand now sells sash windows.