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Google's Street View cars venture inside TARDIS
Dr Who fans the world over know that one of the few surviving Police Boxes on which the TARDIS is modelled can be found outside the entrance to Earl's Court tube station. Google seems to know this too and has created a lovely Easter Egg for Doctor Who fans on its Street View mapping service. The fun starts if you visit this …
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Thursday 15th August 2013 08:05 GMT John Tserkezis
Re: Broken for me. - but wait, there's more.
However, the fault has been reported, and Tardis services will hopefully resume shortly.
As above, a bit tounge in cheekly, I submitted a fault to google about not finding the arrows.
To date, there have been four (so far) identical auto-replies within a 24 hour period, stating my request did not qualify for image blurs or removals.
I already knew that, and I got the hint after the first - I wasn't entirely serious either way.
Either way, the Tardis won't be coming anywhere round here anytime soon.
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Wednesday 14th August 2013 07:51 GMT Anonymous Coward
Pulled
Looks like this was pulled.
Note to author this was taken by a Google Business Photographer not Google, and certainly not a Google Street View Car.
We had the same idea but were warned it'll have been pulled because it's not a "true representation".
Anon, because of all that NDA gubbins we have to sign!
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Wednesday 14th August 2013 16:12 GMT Anonymous Coward
The Doctor is watching!
This particular box was built at London Transports' Lilly Bridge depot. It is mainly constructed from Iroko wood so it doesn't burn easily! We got the plans for it from the Victoria & Albert Museum. The whole thing cost about £35,000 to build. You can get a better view here
http://www.networkpanda.com/ngis/2012/03/real-life-tardis-police-box-outside-earls-court-station-in-london/
If you look carefully at the 'blue light', that is the image capture end of the CCTV camera in the box. Now long dead, a vertically mounted Baxall Spyhawk camera viewed images in a rotating mirror hidden in the fake blue light (a bit like a periscope). The only problem was, it produced an inverted image which had to be converted with mid 90's era software and Pentium II era hardware. Whenever any attempts were made to connect it to the local public CCTV network, it crashed the whole thing, so it was left to record locally on a VCR inside the Tardis. The only useful thing about the box was the kettle point inside for making tea. In place of the public phone, there was a call-point on the side of the box which connected to the local police station.
AC for obvious reasons.