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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Police Box Photo Composites | Ghost Monuments

Ghost Monuments are Metropolitan Police Box images by Paul Dykes, compositing a police box into photos of today's London, and showing where police boxes used to be located across the city during their years of operation: 1929–1980.

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Here are my #GhostMonuments of the box, the first of which looks west, as in the video footage.
Ghost Monuments | Former Police Box sites

June 2019 onwards Photo composites to rematerialise the lost Metropolitan Police Boxes of London.

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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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Police Box Photo Composites | Greenwich | Ghost Monuments

Former sites of police boxes in the London Boroughs of Barking and Dagenham, Bexley, Greenwich, Hackney, Havering, Lewisham, Newham, Redbridge, Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest.

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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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Police Box Photo Composites | Lewisham | Ghost Monuments

Photographic composites of police boxes in their former locations in the London Borough of 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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