Newcastle, St. Nicholas Square, police signal box

HER Number:
16591

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Newcastle, St. Nicholas Square, police signal box

Place:
Newcastle

Map Sheet:
NZ26SW

Class:
Communications

Site Type: Broad:
Telecommunication Structure

Site Type: Specific:
Police Box

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:

Easting:
2494

Northing:
6405

Grid Reference:
NZ24946405

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Petra Caroline [Henderson]'s Police and Police Boxes Virtual Telephone Museum, www.henderson-tele.com/police/boxes/bytown2.html; Immanuel Burton, 2006, A Brief History of the Police Box, November 2006 newsletter of the Construction History Society, www.policeboxes.com; Decentralization and the Police Box System by Frederick James Crawley, Chief Constable of Newcastle upon Tyne, The Police Journal, Volume 1, Number 1, January 1928; Peter Darrington, 2005, A History of the British Police Telephone Kiosk