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In selecting this picture I became completely distracted by trying to figure out what Daphne Ashbrook (the actress who played Grace in the Dr Who TV Movie) is standing in front of. I mean, the TARDIS obv., but what is that thing on top of it? It can't be an actual TARDIS prop (because of the thing, unless there's some Big Finish publicity which involved a thing on top of a Tardis) which makes me think it must be a genuine Police Box. But I'm fairly sure this photo was taken some time in 2004 and I'm also fairly sure there weren't any police boxes still around in 2004 (outside Glasgow, where they don't look like that anyway). So I'm guessing maybe this is a genuine police box that some Who fan managed to get hold of?

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Date: 2017-10-14 10:38 am (UTC)
john_amend_all: (crichtardis)
From: [personal profile] john_amend_all
Looks like the police box at Earl's Court tube station (it got a mention in The Bells of Saint John. The thing on top is a CCTV camera.

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Date: 2017-10-14 03:57 pm (UTC)
sir_guinglain: (Default)
From: [personal profile] sir_guinglain
This is a new build from the late 1990s, I think.

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Date: 2017-10-14 05:06 pm (UTC)
sir_guinglain: (Eccleston)
From: [personal profile] sir_guinglain
Partly publicity, partly a heritage-themed policing project. See here for one explanation.

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Date: 2017-10-14 05:09 pm (UTC)
sir_guinglain: (DoctorQuillDWW)
From: [personal profile] sir_guinglain
Another explanation is that the Met wanted to assert their rights in the police box design...

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Date: 2017-10-14 01:02 pm (UTC)
nostalgia: (Default)
From: [personal profile] nostalgia
glasgow ones look like that, though edinburgh and more any northerly ones don't. (glasgow ones used to be red but dr who taught us the error of our ways)

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Date: 2017-10-15 01:12 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vocatus-fortis.livejournal.com
No, it's a real Police Box. It's (still) outside Earl's Court tube station in London. The thing on top is a security camera.

You can find it on Google Maps' Street View here: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.4921361,-0.1929129,3a,75y,275.89h,84.94t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sOqzuX6R-tuFL79SYqCTSAQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?dcr=0

You used to be able to go inside with Google Maps but that's not available at the moment.

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