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.
We’re still chugging along the Embankment on the last stretch of the London Marathon!
(Coordinates 51°50’73.5″N, 0°12’17.7″W.)
There are a lot of London phone boxes that have been repainted black and repurposed as wifi hubs – a good modern use for them!
In up-to-date phone box news, the family and I have found lots of them while out exploring this week! They’ll all get posted later in the year.
In the meantime, here’s another one from the final stretch of the London Marathon!
(Coordinates 51°50’96.1″N, 0°11’88.2″W.)
That slightly blurry structure sticking straight out of the top of the phone box is in fact the London Eye.
A slightly different phone box from the Embankment next week!
Another of the many phone boxes that line the Victoria Embankment along the final stretch of the London Marathon.
(Coordinates 51°51’08.9″N, 0°11’36.9″W.)
The fact that this is a standard K6 is quite unusual for the Victoria Embankment, which is mostly full of K2s!
More from this stretch next week.
It might be the final stretch of the London Marathon, but we’ll be on this embankment for a while because there are a LOT of phone boxes there!
(Coordinates 51°51’10.4″N, 0°11’07.2″W.)
I really like the glass mural in the back of this one – it shines beautifully through the box on a sunny day.
It’s another phone box from the London Marathon route – the last before we get into the giant series of phone boxes that run along the Thames on the final stretch leading up to the Houses of Parliament.
(Coordinates 51°50’96.6″N, 0°07’89.6″W.)
Paint could be touched up a bit on this one, but it doesn’t look too bad!
This is another phone box that I snapped while running the London Marathon – it stands right opposite the Cutty Sark in Greenwich.
(Coordinates 51°48’32.1″N, 0°00’94.6″W.)
(We’ll just pause here while I have a nerd moment about that longitude coordinate being so pleasingly close to zero! Annoyingly, in tracing the route on Google Street View, I found that I missed a phone box that was even closer, so I’ll need to go back to the area next time I’m in London.)
What’s interesting about this phone box is that it’s red on the inside as well, which is more obvious now that it’s seemingly been emptied of its contents. I hope it stays around as it provides a nice bit of decoration for the tourist-ridden Cutty Sark promenade.