London - Telephone boxes, London Road, Kingston-upon-Thames - postcard 1990

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• Picture / Image:  Telephone Boxes, London Road, Kingston-upon-Thames [London] - this is a work of art called 'Out of Order' by David Mach 
• Publisher: PH Topics, Basingstoke / photo by Roger C. Vaughan
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Kingston upon Thames (spelled with hyphens until 1965, and generally known locally as Kingston) is a town in Greater London, England, and within the historic county of Surrey. It is situated on the River Thames, about 33 feet (10 m) above sea level and 10 miles (16 km) southwest of Charing Cross (deemed the geographical centre of London). It is notable as the ancient market town in which Saxon kings were crowned and today is the administrative centre of the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames.

The large historic parish of Kingston became absorbed in modern times into the Municipal Borough of Kingston-upon-Thames, reformed in 1835 and from 1893 has been the location of Surrey County Hall, extraterritorially in terms of local government administration. Since 1965 Kingston has been a part of Greater London.

Today, most of the town centre is part of the KT1 postcode area, but some areas north of Kingston railway station are within KT2. The United Kingdom Census 2011 recorded the population of the town (comprising the four wards of Canbury, Grove, Norbiton and Tudor) as 43,013, while the borough overall counted 175,470.[1] Kingston is identified as a metropolitan centre in the London Plan and is today a major retail centre, one of the biggest in the UK,[2] receiving 18 million visitors a year.[3] It is also home to Kingston University.

Landmarks

The sculpture "Out of Order"

One of the more unusual sights in Kingston is Out of Order by David Mach, a sculpture in the form of twelve disused red telephone boxes that have been tipped up to lean against one another in an arrangement resembling dominoes. The work was commissioned in 1988 as part of the landscaping for the new Relief Road, and was described by its creator as "anti-minimalist".[36]