Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
ce n'est pas une boîte de téléphone
Duchamp would be surprised to find this is a phone box!
I had a thought that the Salisbury could have a phone booth art gallery out front , but I hear it will be a clock, perhaps the gallery can take root elsewhere?
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Permalink Reply by James R Grinter on
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on the subject of telephone box advertising, and ways of dealing with the ever-increasing sizes, I did like this recent piece by "The Ranty Highwayman" about decluttering the streets - http://therantyhighwayman.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/clutter-buster.html (down towards the end of the article)
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Permalink Reply by Justin Guest on
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Matt, you must have missed a similar comment I made a week or so ago. The problem I have with this is (quite apart from how garishly obnoxious it is) that the 'phone box' is simply a glorified advertising hoarding that removes yet more precious pavement space from us pedestrians and contributes to the cannoning that at times times occurs as we have to navigate bus stops, phone boxes, fruit and veg or other goods spilling into the street, shop and cafe signs, tables and chairs, bins, parking machines and all other manner of 'street furniture'.
As I mentioned in my post last week, I was hoping that some of the half dozen plus phone boxes on the Grand Parades part of GL would be removed, especially the ones that clearly only get used to urinate in, but the guys running the regeneration met resistance because they apparently generate advertising revenue- hence the justification for their continued existence it seems...
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Permalink Reply by matthew cuthbert on
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Sorry Justin missed it, thanks for the input, more folk will be aware of your discussion now.
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Permalink Reply by Lydia R on
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In and out in the same bottle, then...
Lydia Rivlin: Conservative Party candidate for Harringay
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on
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You beat me to it!
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The problem is that phone booths don't need the same kinds of permission as any other street "furniture". Even though they are rarely used these days the phone companies keep them because they don't need advertisement consent from the local authority.
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I did wonder how they managed to get round the planning permissions.
In fact, I think it looks like rather fun but I can imagine that if you had to pass it every day, the joke might start to wear a bit thin. Maybe, so long as there is a phone box in situ, there should be some practice instituted whereby an ad can be constructed but it can stay up for a limited period, after which it then has to be replaced by something non-commercial for a while (at the expense of the previous advertiser) before the advertising cycle can re-start.
(btw. I wouldn't say that phone boxes are rarely used. I suspect they are very well used but probably more by people paying a call rather than making one.)
Lydia Rivlin: Conservative Party candidate for Harringay Ward.
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Permalink Reply by james walsh on
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Désolé, je fait la ferronnerie à l'école
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"Désolé, je fait la ferronnerie à l'école "
James, you have saved us all.
Some of the more enthusiastic Levellers occasionally attack HoLers for being a bunch of over-educated middle-class snobs, but with the information supplied in your eloquent confession we can now most decisively rebut any accusations of having ambitions above our station and hold our heads up high--or would that be "low"?
Lydia Rivlin: Conservative Party candidate for Harringay Ward.
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Moi aussi James
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Aparently 6 defunct phone boxes on Green Lanes have been removed, remaining booths are wifi hot spots and some are legally required in case of emergency. Each booth costs an estimated £2,000 to remove.
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