Tag: Red Phone Boxes

Some more of the phone boxes I photographed on the day of the EMF 10k. Here’s a nice duo that stand next to a bus stop on the Royal Mile.

(Coordinates 55°95’04.4″N, 3°18’55.6″W.)

(I’m not sure why, but it seems that Google Street View has started blurring out the word ‘Telephone’ in images of red phone boxes for some strange reason! Maybe they consider it to be the phone box’s ‘face’.)

These two have succumbed to a certain amount of graffiti and flyers – as expected given it’s the centre of Edinburgh – but on the whole they’re still in fairly good condition.

Fast forward a month from the London Marathon, and I was in another city doing another race – this time the EMF 10k. On the way there, I took the opportunity to photograph a few Edinburgh phone boxes that I hadn’t yet added to my collection.

(Coordinates 55°94’95.4″N, 3°18’34.7″W.)

The centre of Edinburgh is a really good hunting ground for red phone boxes (as evidenced by the vast numbers that I photographed in early 2016 and posted on the blog during the early part of last year!). This one looks a bit unkempt inside, but the outside is still in fairly good condition.

Another Edinburgh phone box next week.

It’s the penultimate phone box of the London Marathon route! One more to go after this.

(Coordinates 51°50’11.4″N, 0°12’76.1″W.)

Back to the K6 boxes as we go further along Great George Street. Nearly at the Mall now!

We’re still on the same block of Great George Street in Westminster, which has a very smart set of K2 boxes. Just a couple more to go along the marathon route!

(Coordinates 51°50’10.5″N, 0°12’73.3″W.)

At some point I might revisit this one for a full-length shot – I was a bit busy finishing a marathon at this point…

We’re still finishing off those last few boxes from the final mile of the London Marathon.

(Coordinates 51°50’11.0″N, 0°12’66.5″W.)

I’m always amazed by how well London has managed to preserve its K2 boxes. There must be hundreds around the city even today!

We’ve turned the corner at Big Ben and we’re finally off the Embankment! It’s four phone boxes for the price of one today.

(Coordinates 51°50’11.9″N, 0°12’63.4″W.)

This lovely row of four phone boxes extends along the southern stretch of Parliament Street. If you follow their path north you will end up at the pub where I stopped for a rest after finishing the marathon – but that’s jumping ahead, and there are still a few phone boxes to see along the final mile!

A double set from the Embankment today!

(Coordinates 51°50’21.2″N, 0°12’39.3″W.)

This pair are the last ones along the Embankment on the London Marathon route – there’s just a few dotted around Big Ben to go!

We’re still here, slogging along mile 25!

(Coordinates 51°50’46.5″N, 0°12’31.8″W.)

You can’t see in the picture, but this one is almost directly opposite the London Eye – meaning we’re very nearly at the Palace of Westminster and the final stretch!

It’s another one of those Embankment phone boxes!

(Coordinates 51°50’70.9″N, 0°12’19.7″W.)

I used to marvel at the amount of red phone boxes on the Embankment when watching the London Marathon on TV and seeing the elite athletes bomb past them at a rate of one every ten seconds. I did not pass one every ten seconds at my pace, but there were still quite a lot!

Another Embankment phone box next week.