Paul DykesBack 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.
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.
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.
Back to Tranquil Vale for another snowy police box site.
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.
Here’s where you can find the Tranquil Vale box on my website. https://www.ghostmonuments.co.uk/lewisham
Here’s where you can find the Charlton Road and Woolwich Road ones. https://www.ghostmonuments.co.uk/greenwich
Here’s the Flickr album with maps http://bit.ly/ghost-monuments
And GMs on IG https://instagram.com/ghost_monuments/
Ghost Monuments | Former Police Box sites
June 2019 onwards Photo composites to rematerialise the lost Metropolitan Police Boxes of London.
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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Neil Corry@paulodykes If I’d lived in that house I’d have stood in front of the demolition team that knocked down the PCB.
@neilcorry Me too! It’d be wonderful if it were still there – I’d see it every day 🥲.