Coffee, kaffe, java.....

Edinburgh used to have it's very own unique policeboxes. The police boxes, which were designed by E J MacRae, the City Architect in the 1930s to complement the classical architecture of Edinburgh, are a distinctive feature of the city and are of significant historic and architectural importance.

I should point out to our non UK chums, police boxes were places where police officers could be contacted and have a rest station before the days of personal radios and when most of the officers did their job on bicycles or on foot.

Now the've been turned into coffee stalls - a sign of the times - but at least the coffee is usually up to scratch.


Wikipedia has a nice piece on them.