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/
Here’s the Flickr album with maps http://bit.ly/ghost-monuments
And GMs on IG https://instagram.com/ghost_monuments/
June 2019 onwards Photo composites to rematerialise the lost Metropolitan Police Boxes of London.
Here’s where you can find the Charlton Road and Woolwich Road ones. https://www.ghostmonuments.co.uk/greenwich
Here’s where you can find the Tranquil Vale box on my website. https://www.ghostmonuments.co.uk/lewisham
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.
Back to Tranquil Vale for another snowy police box site.
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.
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.
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.
Paul Dykes
