Somerton TARDIS

The Somerton police box has a lamp fixing on top which would flash to indicate an incoming call.

The Somerton police box became known in Newport as the TARDIS as a reference to the television series Doctor Who, in which the Doctor's time machine appears as a police box due to its chameleon circuit being stuck.

[1] During the 1980s local residents painted a long multi-coloured scarf on the blue police box as worn by the Fourth Doctor, played by actor Tom Baker 1974–1981.

[2] In January 2010 a grant of £10,500 was allocated by Cadw to restore the structure as a recognition of its importance as a local landmark.

Cadw's listing record locates the box at the junction with Hawthorn Avenue but notes that this "varies through time and space.