Sunderland, Kayll Road/Hylton Road, police box

HER Number:
16597

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Sunderland, Kayll Road/Hylton Road, police box

Place:
Sunderland

Map Sheet:
NZ35NE

Class:
Communications

Site Type: Broad:
Telecommunication Structure

Site Type: Specific:
Police Box

General Period:
Modern

Specific Period:
C20

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:

Easting:
3777

Northing:
5673

Grid Reference:
NZ37775673

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Petra Caroline [Henderson]'s Police and Police Boxes Virtual Telephone Museum, Sunderland Borough Police Box (1920) and Sunderland and South Shields Police Box 1935, 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