It’s not really the TARDIS, of course, but it is an actual police box:
The info plaque on it. Note that the dedication date long predates the revival of Doctor Who:
I don’t know what the hell is with my expression here. Probably the ice-cold rain was hitting me right in the face:
OOH! Ok: How silly will I feel, on a scale of one to ten, when I take this exact photo next month? I mean, are there people actively rolling their eyes at the geeks approaching their mecca?
Um, you didn’t see any creepy-looking weeping angels standing nearby…?
Actually, it looks like the dedication pretty much exactly coincides with the first attempted Doctor Who revival; the Paul McGann Doctor Who movie aired in May of 1996. This police box was likely built to drum up publicity for that revival.
It wasn’t bigger on the inside, was it?
You know what – in three years living five minutes’ walk away, I never once looked at the label on that thing? According to a site I found though, it was built as a CCTV box (hence the “watchbox”) thing – not for any DW-related publicity!