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A police box outside Earl's Court tube station in London, built in 1996 and based on the 1929 Gilbert Mackenzie Trench design. A police box is a public telephone kiosk or callbox for the use of members of the police, or for members of the public to contact the police. It was used in some countries, most widely in the United Kingdom throughout ...
A number of legacy police boxes are still standing on streets around the United Kingdom. Although now no longer used for their original function, many have been repurposed as coffee kiosks, and are often affectionately referred to as TARDISes. [49] [50] A police box in the Somerton area of Newport in South Wales is known as the Somerton TARDIS ...
A police box Dinky Toy, c.1936–1960, based on the mk1 design [1] as evidenced by the lower signs. Gilbert Mackenzie Trench (1885–1979) was a Scottish architect, and the surveyor to the Metropolitan Police between 1920 and 1945. [2] He was the sixth such architect to hold the post since its inception in 1842.
Billy mentions that the windows of the TARDIS are the wrong size for a real police box. In 2004, when the first photographs of the new series' TARDIS prop were revealed, there was a vigorous discussion of the box's dimensions on the Outpost Gallifrey Doctor Who discussion forum, in which some fans complained that the prop's windows were too big ...
On Call, the gritty new half-hour drama that follows police officers on patrol in Long Beach, Calif., is very different from other cop shows.For starters, Lori Loughlin is in it. As the station ...
The blue, drive-up collection box located on the property of a post office at North 7th Avenue was set on fire around 1:20 a.m. local time on Thursday, Oct. 24, ... Police, alongside postal ...
Internally, the box was a miniature police station. The Somerton police box has a lamp fixing on top which would flash to indicate an incoming call. The first UK police boxes were deployed in 1888; the familiar 'TARDIS' shape first appeared in 1929. UK police discontinued use of such boxes by 1969 with the advent of police personal radios for ...
An “incendiary device” was found attached to the side of a ballot drop box when Portland Police responded about 3:30 a.m. Monday, and security personnel extinguished the fire, ...