This is me, pretending to enter one of the oldest surviving red phone boxes in London. These traditional phone boxes are to be seen everywhere in the city, but I haven't seen anybody using them except for photo purposes. However, they belong to London as Big Ben and Tower Bridge.
Giles Gilbert Scott, who designed them, is said to have been inspired by a mausoleum.
The mausoleum can be found on the graveyard of Old St Pancras Church, hidden and neglected behind iron railings behind St Pancras Station. It's the mausoleum for John Soane's wife, designed by her husband in 1816.
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