Mr T Bear and his Tireless Campaigning

As the Mono Monday theme today is ‘Communication‘, (thanks to Skeena for hosting),  I couldn’t resist a photo of this old blue police box in a nearby village.  The original role it played as a communication link between the Constable on the beat and his police station may be over but it now has a new lease of life for a different type of communication.
 
Mr T Bear has taken up residence to publicise the ‘Help for Heroes’ charity and he is tireless in his duty, he is there in the window every day,  wearing his camouflage outfit,  inviting passers -by (and photographers) to make a small donation to this important charity. 
http://www.helpforheroes.org.uk/
 
Police boxes were introduced in Britain in the 1920s, they were used by Constables to keep in contact with their police station, in a time when there were no personal phones.
Placing police boxes on the street was like giving each Constable his own mini police station.  In these boxes supplies of accident and statement forms and other ready to use forms could be left for the officer to write up in the comfort of a warm and dry location.
The typical police box contained a telephone linked directly to the local police station, allowing patrolling officers to keep in contact with the station.
A light on top of the box would flash to let an officer know that he had to contact the police station.  British police boxes were usually blue, except in Glasgow where they were red.  In addition to a telephone, they contained equipment such as an incident book and a first aid kit.
Today the image of the blue police box is a trademark of the BBC , as it is widely associated with the science fiction programme ‘Doctor Who?’  which depicts the police box as a time machine, the much loved Tardis.