2021-05-07
55 分钟Hello, and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish,
a weekly podcast coming to you from four mysterious locations in the UK.
My name is Dan Schreiber, I am sitting here with Anna Tyshinski, Andrew Hunter Murray and James Harkin,
and once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favourite facts from the last seven days,
and in a particular order, here we go.
Starting with fact number one, that is Andy.
My fact is that from 1925 until 1936, the town of Eastbourne had two phone booths with thatched roofs.
Wow, that sounds very eastbourne to me.
It does.
It feels like phones and thatched roofs belong to quite different eras.
So why were they getting the thatched roof in what I would call the post thatch era?
Well, they weren't, see Eastbourne adapted a bit later than the rest of the world to the post thatch, and to everything.
But to the end of thatch, basically it was the beginning of the 20th century, very exciting.
You know, we've got phones now, and we've got phone boxes.
And early days,
local authorities didn't like getting standard designs for what was going on in their parish council or their town council or whatever,
and so they had these two kiosks on the seafront, and they thought, no, this doesn't look very eastbourne to us.
So they incested that they got a local thatcher to come on and build them a thatched roof,
and it looks so stupid, it obviously looks like a sort of magic toadstool that you'd see a pixie living in.
Is this on the classic red phone box, the K6 as it's known, or is this earlier?