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Box of Delights

This restored police box was installed on Glasgow’s London Road for the 2014 Commonwealth Games. Photo © Kenny Smith.

“Police boxes went out with flower power”, said Tegan in the 1982 story Time-Flight, and she wasn’t far wrong – home secretary James Callaghan ordered the removal of police boxes from London streets in 1969.

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