Abstract
Passers-by travelling through the sleepy village of Almonbury, just outside Huddersfield, could be excused for believing that the local residents were having a visitation from the BBC's time-travelling eccentric. For, standing at the corner of a front garden in Northgate, the main thoroughfare through the village, is what seems to be Dr. Who's “Tardis”. To all outward appearances a casualty of incorrectly locked-in co-ordinates, it stands uncomfortably jammed between the garden and a high stone wall. However, things are not what they seem, and with time travel a long way in the future, despite advances in space flight, it is merely one of the last remaining police boxes in West Yorkshire.
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