Hello and welcome to another episode, a no such thing as a fish, a weekly podcast coming

to you from four mysterious locations in the UK.

My name is Dan Schreiber, I am sitting here with Anatoch Shinsky, Andrew Hunter Murray

and James Harkin. And once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite

facts from the last seven days and in a particular order here we go. Starting with fact number

one, that is Andy.

My practice that from 1925 until 1936, the town of Eastbourne had two phone booths with

thatched roofs. Wow that sounds very spawn to me. Yeah. It does. It feels like phones and

thatched roofs belong to quite different eras. So why would they get thatched roof in

what I would call the post thatch era?

Well they won't see Eastbourne adapted a bit later than the rest of the world to the

two-edged post thatch and to everything. But to the end of thatch, basically at the beginning

of the 20th century, very exciting. You know, we've got phones now and we've got phone

boxes and early days, local authorities didn't like getting standard designs for what was

going on in there, parish council, their town council, whatever. And so they had these

two key usks on the sea front and they thought, no, this doesn't look very Eastbourne to

us. So they insisted that they got a local thatcher to come on and build them a thatched

roof. And it looks so stupid. It obviously looks like a sort of magic toadstool that you'd

see as Pixie living in. And is this on the classic red phone box, the K6 as it's known

or is this earlier? These weren't K6 models. These were very early models. They were in

the K1 models. Yeah. Still red, right? In fact, I looked at the full K1 to 6 range and

deciphered a couple of exceptions. They all look the same to me. I can't believe there's

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