Dog and Phone

Not only did Sir Giles Gilbert Scott design Liverpool Cathedral and Battersea Power Station (which I admire though I prefer the Bankside Power Station he designed that now houses Tate Modern) but he also designed the iconic red telephone box.

The cursor blinks and moves on... Now that everyone has a mobile telephone, we no longer have the original need that saw these boxes added to our urban landscape and they have been disappearing. They've been uprooted and shipped to shopping malls in the States, Singapore and Germany.

But now it seems we've found another use for them. As banks close branches and the holes in their walls, Scott's telephone boxes arise phoenix-like as repositories for ATMs to service the night-life brigade as they take over our city centres after dark.

Oh, and a young woman is doing something remarkable with a green dog and being photographed doing it by another young woman