Mum and Dad revisited the Port of Tyne phone box this morning! Dad had hoped to take a slightly clearer picture of the box this time round, but it wasn’t to be – so I had a bit of fun with the zoomed-in picture instead. Behold, the 8-bit Port of Tyne phone box! Maybe this will show up in one of my illustrated text adventure games someday.
As I’m still some way off from being able to build my own practical projects in JavaScript, I decided to try some map prototyping using the free Felt mapmaking website.
I’ll continue to play around with this while I’m still learning – it’d be great to start getting an idea of how the overall map will eventually look.
Here’s the last of the phone boxes Mum and Dad found during their recent trip to northwest England.
(Coordinates 53°54’18.1″N, 2°72’25.0″W.)
This one still has a phone in it!
Back to some gradual progress (I hope) on the phone box map next week.
Cracking street name!
We have another book exchange today…
(Coordinates 53°68’10.0″N, 2°80’02.6″W.)
This one has a very neat and full shelf of books and also some DVDs!
One more from the area next week.
Another Lancashire defib box today!
(Coordinates 53°66’22.7″N, 2°77’51.8″W.)
Dad reports from his mapping that this one appears to have been moved at some point. Nevertheless, it’s been in the same place since at least March 2009 according to Street View. Only recently a defibrillator though!
Mum and Dad have been on their travels again and so I have a few phone boxes from the north-west of England to add to the collection! First up is this defibrillator box in Rufford.
Coordinates 53°63’07.0″N, 2°82’86.0″W.)
A rather neat little collection of stones and bricks keeping the door shut!
One of the hobby projects I planned to do after I finished TechUP last year was to create an interactive map of all my phone box finds to share online. I planned to do it last summer, and then things kept getting in the way (mostly game-making). However, I did start learning JavaScript on Codecademy in the hope I’d know enough to make something simple by now… but I don’t yet, unfortunately! JavaScript learning has been steady but slow and I think I need to find some more specific online tutorials if I’m going to have a go at actual personal projects.
I have very nearly collated all the location coordinates for my collection, though – just 25 more to find on Street View. I won’t do revisit posts for those ones as I would quite like to start work on the map if I can find a way to do it. One of the projects for this summer… maybe?
In the meantime, here’s a video I made about my map plans (and phone boxes in general) as part of my TechUP coursework last year. It’s a bit out-of-date as I was fairly over-ambitious (and I keep changing my mind about what I want to do with my TechUP qualification), but I’ll post it here for posterity and hopefully will have some more updates to join it soon!
This is the third post about this phone box instance in Durham, but there’s been a bit of a change!
In my last post about this location, I mentioned that I would like to go back and take another photo, as the one I had taken in 2016 was really blurry. I finally returned a couple of weeks ago, en route to a race in Durham… but the one-time phone box duo had become a single! I wonder what state the other one must have been in that it had to be taken away…
The remaining box still has a phone in, at least!
Mum and Dad sent me an updated photo of this Ardwell box last visited in 2019.
It’s now being used as a menu for a local café. The phone inside is also still intact and still accepts BT Chargecards!
A bit more local to me next week.
Mum and Dad made a return trip to the previously half-ivy-buried phone box in Kirkmaiden recently.
The ivy coat has gone… and so have all the glass panels! Looking a bit spartan now…