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Watching the Sweeny this evening and a guy was using a telephone box. I had forgotten about the mirror in the box. Anyone know why it was there and maybe why it was low? Ladies?
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Not sure why the "mirror" is there. I'll have a little delve.

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There are quite a few answers here, pick one out which seems to be most appropriate :-D

https://www.quora.com/Why-did-old-Briti ... ve-mirrors

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I have no idea how you managed to get that photograph but I suspect sorcery of some advanced type
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Using much cruder methods I have managed to get this low grade screenshot from Withnail and I it looks like there's a mirror there....
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doctle wrote: 19 Oct 2020, 21:54 I have no idea how you managed to get that photograph but I suspect sorcery of some advanced type
Just needed to flick through the digital Radio Times to see which Sweeney episode was on today
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and after that most of these things are on Dailymotion and Series 1 Episode 9 was ( ) and theres the scene with the phonebox and the mirror!

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Thank you. I haven't seen that Thames TV graphic in years I missed the first 10 minutes of the Sweeney today Fred Dibnah was on at the same time.
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