London is being overrun...

Starise
Two words-  Dr. Who

He doesn't travel in a phone booth; it's a police box.  And it's Doctor Who, not Dr. Who.
 
Yes, I am a DW Nazi.

In other news from Bitflipper's sunday paper....
 
WWII BOMBER PLANE FOUND ON MOON

ALIEN FOUND DEAD IN ROADSIDE DITCH CLUTCHING HALF EATEN BIG MAC.

ELVIS IS ALIVE AND WELL AND WORKING ON A TOP SECRET NEW ALBUM WITH DAVID BOWIE

Wibbles
 
 
The Doctor is a she.

Not until Sunday (yeah yeah I know he regenerated into a she a couple years ago, but still...)

Never mind the bleedin' phone boxes. London is filled with friggen' LONDONERS!
 
I mean, it's like they're everywhere, man. It's freaky.
 
:p

suppose I should comment, been a Londoner for forty*cough* years , 10 minute drive from abbey road if the road is clear (to put in context)
 
there is a bit of your story that shows a cafe, run out of 2 boxes.. the person who has them keeps the stuff in the boxes themselves, *BUT* the local council is demanding he's serving the coffee inside the phone boxes, which .. well is impossible.. and they are fining him a lot everytime, they see him for conducting his business on the pavement.
 
the phone boxes are now also used for BT wifi hotspots , even home routers have a 2nd channel that is separate that BT customers can access. it's handy if my home connection goes down, so why I went with them.
 
if it's a loophole to get around how the advertising space is charged for, esp. west end  , it also doesn't surprise me. A lot of the boards in prime locations now are animated / pixels instead of the old fashion rolls. They probably still have them ones on a roll / loop.
 
hence why many business's work out of storage units instead of a real shop, the rates for a shop are crazy vs a storage unit.. and well charity shops and a certain coffee chain avoid paying the true amount they should, so loads of them are around now.
 
many buildings I grew up with like studios and , including the church my folks were married in , that became a community centre now sell for millions as private homes, that people with deep pockets buy.
 
this is now what the church my folks got married in looks like .. I used to go there when it was a community centre / dance hall , I was friends with the steward's son who ran it.
 
http://www.hamhigh.co.uk/property/is-this-10m-property-the-most-expensive-house-in-kensal-green-1-4434953
 
Although a dutch friend, his music studio is a converted church.
 
so I will be priced out of london sooner or later , thanks to dodgy foreign money in part.