Paul DykesMar 26, 2023

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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Show threadPaul DykesMar 26, 2023

…What better way to improve it than to run a three-lane dual carriageway through it?

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Show threadPaul DykesMar 26, 2023
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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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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Show threadPaul DykesMar 26, 2023
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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Show threadPaul DykesMar 26, 2023

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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Police Box Photo Composites | Lambeth | Ghost Monuments

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

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Show threadPaul DykesMar 26, 2023

Here’s where you can find the Muswell Hill one https://www.ghostmonuments.co.uk/haringey

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Police Box Photo Composites | Haringey | Ghost Monuments

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

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Show threadPaul DykesMar 26, 2023

Here’s where you can find the Aldborough Hatch one https://www.ghostmonuments.co.uk/redbridge

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Police Box Photo Composites | Redbridge | Ghost Monuments

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

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Show threadPaul DykesMar 26, 2023

And here’s where you can find the Blackheath one 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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Show threadPaul DykesMar 26, 2023

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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Ghost Monuments | Former Police Box sites

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

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Show threadNeil CorryMar 26, 2023
@paulodykes Are there more to come? Or are your gargantuan efforts now, after almost four glorious years complete?
Show threadPaul DykesMar 26, 2023
@neilcorry Very nearly complete! Which is bittersweet. One more week to go, I think.
Show threadNeil CorryMar 26, 2023
@paulodykes It’s an amazing, awe-inspiring project.
Show threadPaul DykesMar 26, 2023
@neilcorry Thank you, Neil – and huge thanks, as ever, for all your support and encouragement – it’s meant a lot!