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Rose Street, Edinburgh
One of the 142 former Police Boxes in Edinburgh.
Most, if not all have been sold off and have new uses as coffee bars or tour guide stations.
The Police Box Network dates from 1932 and this is evidenced by the fact that most have sinks installed with the date embedded in them. Most were designed by City Architect Ebenezer MacRae and manufactured by Carron Ironworks of Falkirk. The boxes used to have sirens on top and were used by officers to phone into the station, report and get further instructions. The aforementioned sink in each box served as an urinal, washing facility and a tap to provide refreshment.
The name of this simple box, folded from a hexagon, comes from its jagged edge. It is closely related to Bowl Box.
This is a small minifigure's biggest adventure!
I took this picture last year right after my second moving in, because I thought that stack of boxes do look like mountains for tiny Lego people. :)
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Isn't it beautiful in Summer, to see houses, walls, windows and facades, decorated and cheered up with flowers.
Some people just do not have a garden, what a brilliant solution, for all of us!
Do we even think about that now or is it just another given?
It suddenly dawned on me.
I think there is a trend though, to also have autumn and winter plants and fun.
Oh please, ANYTHING to make our moods brighter, lol.
Thank you, M, (*_*)
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100% biodegradable fiberboard water containers are starting to be a common site in and around the Navajo Nation. These earth friendly boxes are at a convenience store in Bluff, San Juan County, Utah. It's definitely time to start finding and using alternatives to single use plastic. Of course a reusable water bottle would be even better!
Whitby signal box, photographed on 3 August 1981.
From wikipedia:
"In 1854, the Y&NM helped form the North Eastern Railway, who later added two more platforms (also replaced by the supermarket) to help deal with traffic from the other branch lines that served Whitby; the Esk Valley Line finally opened throughout to a junction at Grosmont in 1863. The coast line from Loftus opened in 1883 and from Scarborough in 1885. Block signalling replaced the time interval system in 1876 and brought Whitby an unusual three storey signal box (to make it high enough to see over the adjacent goods shed)."
AA Sentry box at Devil's Bridge, Ceredigion.
Date taken: 5th January 2021.
Album: Things That Aren't Cars
Actually this phone box is not as desolate as it looks as it is next a road at Studland where traffic queues to board the Sandbanks Ferry.
The red telephone box is a public telephone kiosk designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott and is a familiar sight on the streets of the United Kingdom, Malta, Bermuda and Gibraltar. Despite a reduction in their numbers in recent years, the traditional British red telephone box can still be seen in many places throughout the UK, and in current or former British colonies around the world. The colour red was chosen to make them easy to spot.
The red phone box is often seen as an iconic British symbol throughout the world.
This one is the much used K6 (kiosk number six) design which In 1935 was designed to commemorate the silver jubilee of King George V. K6 was the first red telephone kiosk to be extensively used outside London, and many thousands were deployed in virtually every town and city, replacing most of the existing kiosks and establishing thousands of new sites. It has become a British icon, although it was not universally loved at the start. The red colour caused particular local difficulties and there were many requests for less visible colours. The red that is now much loved was then anything but, and the Post Office was forced into allowing a less strident grey with red glazing bars scheme for areas of natural and architectural beauty. Ironically, some of these areas that have preserved their telephone boxes have now painted them red.
Studland Bay is protected from the prevailing southwesterly winds and storms by Ballard Down and Handfast Point, the chalk headland that separates Studland from Swanage Bay to the south. In the 17th century there began a process of sand accumulation in the bay and along the South Haven Peninsula stretching north, resulting in natural land reclamation and the creation or expansion of the bay's beaches and its sand dune system.
The beaches at Studland Bay are amongst the most popular in the country, and on rare hot summer weekends they fill up with thousands of people. The beaches are situated in civil parish of Studland on the Isle of Purbeck in the English county of Dorset. The South East Dorset Conurbation of Poole, Bournemouth & Boscombe lies on the other side of Poole Harbour, resulting in the beaches being relatively accessible to a large population via the Sandbanks Ferry. North of the visitor centre the beach and dunes are owned and managed by the National Trust, who have restricted parking provision at the site to prevent overcrowding. A short northern stretch of beach is reserved as a naturist beach.
Since the early 20th century the supply of sand to the bay has depleted and erosion is occurring so that, if natural processes are uninterrupted, the coastline may in time retreat back to its previous line, visible as a line of higher ground between Redend Point and the hill east of the Knoll House Hotel. In January 2004 the BBC television series The National Trust investigated the conflicts between different groups of people who use the beach and heath at Studland. The series particularly covered the debate about coastal management, with the Trust proposing to remove defensive walls to allow natural processes to shape the coastline, though this would result in loss of some land and property.
The final stage of the South West Coast Path (if walked in the conventional anti-clockwise direction, starting at Minehead, Somerset) follows Studland Bay and ends at South Haven Point, where a sculpture marks the end.
The actual village of Studland lies 2.5 miles (4 km) to the south of here and it is famous for these beaches and a nature reserve. It lies within the Purbeck administrative district, and is located about 2 miles (3.2 km) north of the town of Swanage, over a steep chalk ridge, and 3 miles (4.8 km) south of the South East Dorset conurbation at Sandbanks, but separated from it by Poole Harbour and the Sandbanks Ferry. The parish includes Brownsea Island within the harbour. In the 2011 Census the parish had a population of 425, though many of the houses in the village are holiday homes, second homes, or guest houses, and the village's population varies depending upon the season.
Sandbanks Ferry is a vehicular chain ferry which crosses the entrance of Poole Harbour and its route runs from Sandbanks to Studland and in doing so connects the coastal parts of the towns of Bournemouth and Poole with Swanage and the Isle of Purbeck. This avoids a 25 mile journey by road.
The ferry, along with the this road that connects with it on the Studland side, is owned by the Bournemouth - Swanage Motor Road and Ferry Company, which initiated the ferry crossing in 1923, and a toll is charged for use of both road and ferry. The current toll for a car is £3.50 each way. The current ferry boat, named Bramble Bush Bay, was put into service in 1994 and can carry up to 48 cars. It is the fourth vessel to operate on the route.
The entrance to Poole Harbour is a particularly busy waterway, used by many private and leisure craft along with commercial vessels including large ferries serving routes to France. This often affects the ability of the ferry to maintain its nominal 20 minute frequency. Wilts and Dorset buses cross the ferry frequently throughout the day, on route 50 from Bournemouth to Swanage.
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Today's art is often meant to be interpreted by the beholder. So what is the message sent by this object: Art in boxes? Boxed in art? Many boxes of art? Art is risking to fall?
Whatever; I like this sculpture!
From what I recall, this signal box, which has since been demolished, was in West Hartlepool; to the east of Hartlepool station.
The photograph would be taken from the point of the level crossing at the end of Church Street and the start of Mainsforth Terrace.
The lines curving round to the right are the current lines running down the Durham coast to Seaton Carew and beyond.
West Hartlepool locomotive depot was about half a mile further down this line, towards Seaton Carew. The area of the depot, which was to the north of the road bridge on the A178 and the start of Coronation Drive, still remains undeveloped.
Lovely cottage apparently used for advertising on chocolate boxes situated at Thornton-Le-Dale near Whitby
QUBE's 3164 loaded box grain is seen passing through Berrima Junction behind CM3310, MZ1431 & 4497, Thursday, 16th November 2017
In the case of war and other situations it is often true that it's ever so easy to get in, and so very difficult to get out.
Most of my Superstar era dolls came with their boxes, (for some reason it's only really that era that I have to get dolls that are MIB or NRFB!) and while most get released from their boxes and put on display, especially if the box is somewhat damaged, there are some I actually prefer to display in their boxes, as I just love the whole presentation. Beauty Secrets Christie was on display for a while and had fun playing with her, but she has now joined her friend Beauty Secrets Barbie (the 1980 New York convention edition - I have another regular one that was de-boxed and is now on display) on that wall of boxed beauties in my Dolly room.
Mick Box of Uriah Heep. King's Theatre, Glasgow, UK (23.2.25). Snapseed edit. (Guitar) Heroes Never Die
28/52: The ugly duckling
Amsterdam, Netherlands
I spend a very significant chunk of my life in rehearsal studios. Many rehearsal studios are rooms with black walls, black floors and often no windows (and I can remember several that were nicknamed "the black box"). They aren't always inherently ugly spaces (and some are really nice), but I can't say most would be something I'd choose to look at if I didn't have to.
The rehearsal studio at the Carré theatre in Amsterdam happened to be a fairly nice, spacious version of a black box with a large window...and the silhouetting in the photo covers up the various cluttery tables and chairs that were lined up along the walls.
Based off of legotank's design but I change some things, and added my own elements to it as well. It was actually surprisingly simple to figure out and build.
Enjoy