Object description

The Somerton TARDIS is a police box on Acacia Avenue beside the B4237 road in the Somerton area of Newport, South Wales. This police box is the only remaining one of four that were in Newport. It is a Grade II listed building. Police boxes were deployed in the UK as a police telephone communications point before public and mobile phones were widely available. The Somerton police box has a lamp fixing on top which would flash to indicate an incoming call.