Barclays' Big Boo-Boo
Our heartiest congratulations
go to
and to
JCDecaux
upon their receipt of
the HAVOC award for ...
The most insensitively
placed advertisment
of 2008
(click to enlarge picture)
Our heartiest congratulations
go to
and to
JCDecaux
upon their receipt of
the HAVOC award for ...
The most insensitively
placed advertisment
of 2008
(click to enlarge picture)
Swan Square, Burslem, is
currently being rebuilt. Whatever your opinions of the design, it is
happening. But there seems to be one feature that the planners may have
forgotten about.
There are two BT phone boxes in Swan Square.
What's happening to them? In the artist's impression below, taken from SoTCC's propaganda sheet Our City, they seem to have mysteriously vanished!
If you look at the pictures below, taken while reconstruction work is underway, you will see that they are very prominent.
So, are they staying or are they disappearing? Oftel has said that BT must not take boxes away from deprived areas, so one must assume that they stay. Anyway, Ofcom believes that local communities must have the final say in decisions about keeping or removing the last phone box in a particular area.
In their current form (KX100 model, designed 1985), do they add to or detract from the new look of the square? Probably the latter.
Recently, it has been revealed that BT want to remove one of the two remaining K6 red phone boxes in Stoke-on-Trent (this model, designed in 1935 by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of King George V, was the first to be installed nationwide).
An amazing fact. There are only two red phone boxes in Stoke-on-Trent. Another part of Britain's heritage disappearing!
Here is an obvious opportunity to double the number of red K6 phone boxes in the City, and to provide a public service that is more in keeping with the revamped look of Burslem.
We'll canvass some opinion, and see what happens!
There are two BT phone boxes in Swan Square.
What's happening to them? In the artist's impression below, taken from SoTCC's propaganda sheet Our City, they seem to have mysteriously vanished!
If you look at the pictures below, taken while reconstruction work is underway, you will see that they are very prominent.
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So, are they staying or are they disappearing? Oftel has said that BT must not take boxes away from deprived areas, so one must assume that they stay. Anyway, Ofcom believes that local communities must have the final say in decisions about keeping or removing the last phone box in a particular area.
In their current form (KX100 model, designed 1985), do they add to or detract from the new look of the square? Probably the latter.
Recently, it has been revealed that BT want to remove one of the two remaining K6 red phone boxes in Stoke-on-Trent (this model, designed in 1935 by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of King George V, was the first to be installed nationwide).
An amazing fact. There are only two red phone boxes in Stoke-on-Trent. Another part of Britain's heritage disappearing!
Here is an obvious opportunity to double the number of red K6 phone boxes in the City, and to provide a public service that is more in keeping with the revamped look of Burslem.
We'll canvass some opinion, and see what happens!
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