Red Phone Boxes

You know what they look like but do

many exist on our streets? How many and where are they located? Is it true there are less than 5 on Liverpool's streets?

The challenge is to photograph

or share the pictures you already have of our beloved red phone boxes on Liverpool's streets and the wider urban environment.

The prize? A meeting

meeting with this fella who frequents them often I've

heard:

http://www.comicheroes.co.uk/images/gifs/MicroHer

oes/Superman/superman-phonebooth.gif (http://www.comicheroes.co.uk/images/gifs/MicroHeroes/Superman/superman-phonebooth.gif)

I'm going to go for the really easy one..... :evil:

Liverpool Cathedral - next to the lift shaft!

I'm going to go for the

really easy one..... :evil:

Liverpool Cathedral - next to the lift shaft!

Lets get them snapped! :PDT_Piratz_26:

There are probably more in the USA than there are over there, just about every

British pub has one.:PDT_Aliboronz_24:

....

I'll go to Catherine street for one.

Outside the Town

Hall.

http://www.liverpoolviews.co.uk/dale/town/town3.jpg

Cool.:snf (41):

Brilliant! There's two :) Any more?

....
Cracking thread. I suppose you all know what

the red phone box and the Anglican Cathedral have in common.

How about a thread about letter boxes as well? There's some boss ones dotted around

Liverpool.

Sounds like a good idea SD,

go 'ed then :) . Although, I havn't looked at letter boxes much.

Sounds like a good

idea SD, go 'ed then :) . Although, I havn't looked at letter boxes much.
Just done it Kev:PDT_Piratz_26:


http://www.yoliverpool.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2400

It looks like the red telephone boxes have only been retained outside significant buildings, or in conservation

areas, but it comes as a shock to hear there are so few.
There are still 2 outside the former North Western Hotel in Lime Street.

The red phone box was designed by

Giles Scott who designed the Anglican cathedral. Portugal bought British telephone and post boxes of which many are still about.

The red phone box was designed by Giles Scott who designed the

Anglican cathedral. Portugal bought British telephone and post boxes of which many are still about.
Give that man a coconut!:PDT_Piratz_26:

Location:

Anglican

Cathedral (http://www.yoliverpool.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1898)

http://static.flickr.com/121/288493853_44de8b78df.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ijob/288493853/)

Lower Breck rd, post box.

I just realised - I put this in the wrong thread ! :rolleyes: .. I'll put it in Post

boxes ...

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b66/scousemousepic/WestDerbyVillage.jpg
Here's one in West Derby Village.

spotted a red phone box on Aigburth Rd, by 'Bas's' pub, Jericho lane way.

Walked past it a million times and not really noticed it before

spotted a red phone box on Aigburth Rd, by 'Bas's' pub, Jericho lane way.

Walked past it a million times and not really noticed it before

photee please :PDT_Piratz_26:

The one near the entrance to Fulwood Park (Aigburth rd) had its windows smashed when I passed it today.
A later design red phone box (full door window) is in Moorfields (Dale st. end). Even this design is rare nowadays.

This site mentions a red one being in the Cavern
http://www.creativeflair.co.uk/Beatle%20Street/telephone%20box%20inside%20cavern.jpg

photee please :PDT_Piratz_26:
479

Just took that, oh and this...
480
not a red phone box, but nice nonetheless. When the gf leaves me alone I turn into a nerd on a Saturday night

Here's the Lime St. pair

Here's Catherine Street and Rodney Street.

Smashing pics.

There are more red phone boxes existing than we realise. :celb (23):

I like them.

Rosedale Road, Allerton

Was looking for this thread!

Catherine Street just by the Arts College and Myrtle Street.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/130/329470080_68a7578435.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/maxmolyneux/329470080/)

St Johns Lane and Mersey Tunnel entrance.

I want to take another one of that tunnel, but I got to be Ninja like so a bizzie car doesn't ask me to delete It.

Think I found a spot do try.:PDT_Aliboronz_24:

The first time I tried and I was close they never did nothing, It was the second time last August.

I'm still trying to think why It's against regulations? Do they think were potential terrorists wanting to find weakspots?:evil:

Are we not allowed to take pics of the Tunnel then? No wonder Plod gave me such a funny look as I was sat in the passenger seat yesterday :Colorz_Grey_PDT_16:

Nah, the police come upto you all embarrassed or least say they are and tell you they don't agree with this regulation and say they have to ask you to delete any pictures you took of it.

I'd like to use my zoom from somewhere they won't notice though.

Weirdly the first time I did one in the same place and I wasn't stopped then!:shock:

Waverley Road red 'phone-box, near Lark Lane (just a bit down from 'Keiths').

Picton Road

There's a flickr group for red telephone boxes.

http://www.flickr.com/groups/requiemforaredbox/

Coliseum / Essoldo, Linacre Road, Litherland, Liverpool 21.
Opened 1921.
Architect unknown.
Closed 1963.
Bingo.
Demolished 1988.
Housing built on the site.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/95/227025688_98181de8b8_o.jpg
More cinemas in my flickr page.

Picton Road

I nearly walked in to this one today and then wondered why I needed to take a picture of it :rolleyes: :)

http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i36/taxipix/REDDUKESTBHDFEB07.jpg

Duke St. Birkenhead - Feb 2007

This is opposite the Catholic Cathedral.

Near Walton Hospital.

I noticed the one on Aigburth Road (near Fullwood Park entrance) has disappeared.

I noticed the one on Aigburth Road (near Fullwood Park entrance) has disappeared.

I was just going to say that! :)

It looks in good condition, but most of the glass is completely missing!

Does this one count? It's in Tauranga, North Island, NEw Zealand.
http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/6671/pict0022aiu7.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

I know there's one in the Anglican catherdral but I haven't got a pickie of it.
I think they are all in Gib now ?:disgust:

I know there's one in the Anglican catherdral but I haven't got a pickie of it.
I think they are all in Gib now ?:disgust:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/121/288493853_44de8b78df.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ijob/288493853/)
^^Posted a while ago^^

Kev

Found this one hidden away in your 'Gateacre Village' thread >>>>

http://static.flickr.com/93/261595970_2b0a1dfa82.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ijob/261595970/)

Picture is borrowed from Kev's post.

Phredd

in edit == just noticed in the next pic down there is a red post box.

^^Well spotted^^ :handclap::handclap:

...

July 1990.

Sorry it's so poor, but this is part of the background of a photo of somebody who's shy!

Kev

Found this one hidden away in your 'Gateacre Village' thread >>>>

http://static.flickr.com/93/261595970_2b0a1dfa82.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ijob/261595970/)

Picture is borrowed from Kev's post.

Phredd

in edit == just noticed in the next pic down there is a red post box.

Even Closer.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/229/455081899_b1573cbd3b_o.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/maxmolyneux/455081899/)

Here's one on Rosedale Rd, Mossley Hill. Just off Allerton Rd, Mossley Hill

It's things like phone boxes, post boxes etc that give our streets character. So much character has been lost and is being lost across the country with the loss of old buildings and the felling of mature trees. It's about time we started restoring our streetscape and start putting more effort into the way things look.
Companies like LLDC are a great example of how to add character to our streets with high quality street materials, tree planting, quality lighting and installation of high quality fencing etc.

Inside The Cavern club:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/238/515799952_d282f2b767.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ijob/515799952/)

Swedish Polar Bears (http://www.yoliverpool.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4689) inside that phone box:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/250/514812650_415aa84528.jpg (http://farm1.static.flickr.com/250/514812650_415aa84528.jpg)
^^Pic (c) Daz^^

A homeless mans beard!:PDT_Aliboronz_24::PDT10

Telephone Box, Hill Head near Portsmouth, Hampshire.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/224/516183088_991011ed02_b.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/210/516177118_6c8092703a_b.jpg

Outside the Town Hall.

http://www.liverpoolviews.co.uk/dale/town/town3.jpg

Have a close look at the phonebox in the background. I forget the model but its a very rare larger one like the TARDIS inside !,
Fond memories of phone boxes I was responsible for the painting and cleaning of them whist at BT in 1991/92. Even added an extra in the painting spec to pick out the crown in black!

Some in conservation areas are painted green!

I think BT donated one to Merseyside Museums , think its in the Juniper Street store.

Anyone remember the OAKHAM booths? those phones in like an OLD OAK HAM shaped box painted yellow (yuk)on a pole which were introduced in bad vandalism areas rather than a standard kiosk.

regards

Rob

There is also one on Wavertree High Street opposite the KFC

Have a close look at the phonebox in the background. I forget the model but its a very rare larger one like the TARDIS inside !, . . .

regards

Rob

I had occasion to delete a number of the shots of the Portsmouth red telephone box that I photographed from my Flickr account and it was like watching the Tardis disappearing into the void!!!! :eek:

Chris

Both these boxes are listed. The larger one, the K2 type is the rarer and dates from 1924 and the other is the K6, not as rare.
And I feel very nerdy knowing that! It's only because it cropped up on one of my walks, honest!
Julie


Have a close look at the phonebox in the background. I forget the model but its a very rare larger one like the TARDIS inside !,
Fond memories of phone boxes I was responsible for the painting and cleaning of them whist at BT in 1991/92. Even added an extra in the painting spec to pick out the crown in black!

Some in conservation areas are painted green!

I think BT donated one to Merseyside Museums , think its in the Juniper Street store.

Anyone remember the OAKHAM booths? those phones in like an OLD OAK HAM shaped box painted yellow (yuk)on a pole which were introduced in bad vandalism areas rather than a standard kiosk.

regards

Rob

Wavertree High Street/Picton Road.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1109/846937287_0adc672228_o.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/maxmolyneux/846937287/)

Woodside Ferry Terminal, Birkenhead

Woodside Ferry Terminal, Birkenhead

Great to see, Taffy. What's the information on that wind direction pointer, as I take it to be, and the sign "Woodside Ferry" -- are they both original to the old terminal, maybe dating to Victorian days, or are they mock-ups?

Chris

I had to get the bus to Landican Cemetery recently, and noticed that once you get in the suburbs of Birkenhead, there seems to be nothing but original red telephone boxes.
Obviously, a different policy is operating there, than in Liverpool, where they are a rarity.

Great to see, Taffy. What's the information on that wind direction pointer, as I take it to be, and the sign "Woodside Ferry" -- are they both original to the old terminal, maybe dating to Victorian days, or are they mock-ups?

Chris

I think they're originals. The Woodside ferry terminal has been laid out as a heritage centre as well as a passenger terminal

Interesting combination of telephone box, post box and stamp dispenser. Sited in Frodsham on the Cheshire side of the River Mersey

This one is by the Railway Inn in Meols on the Wirral. Its actually quite famous too.

It was the actual phone box OMD sang obout on their second single 'Red Frame/White light', which also included the phone number in its verse.

The number is still the same today! I have a photo of a large group of OMD fans all around it too somewhere from 2005. I got onto the Radio with this too!

Notice the 'wet paint' signs on the wall. BT painted a day before the fans arrived. Hows that? :D

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v497/corky100/atlast.jpg

There is a red telephone box at Chester Zoo

better views of the Town Hall ones
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e28/quincyg/date%20stones/mosiacs%20shops%20signage/post%20and%20phone%20boxes/Picture1142.jpg
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e28/quincyg/date%20stones/mosiacs%20shops%20signage/post%20and%20phone%20boxes/Picture1143.jpg

there used to be one at the end of my street when I was a kid (now one of those crappy new ones), that was the right hand goal post and the pillar box was the left hand one.

had a passion for both ever since

quincyg.when did you take photo of telyphone box outside the town hall,three five years ago?.edwardo

quincyg.when did you take photo of telyphone box outside the town hall,three five years ago?.edwardo

late last year

Spotted by a friend

Hampstead Road L6

Conwy harbour phone box.

Me mum used to phone me nan in the USA form this one in the mid eighties. It saved her a ton of money, cause it was always free! Somehow after the first coin it would stay connection until she hung up. She would aways worry if the police where listening and would come and arrest her. She always had a bag of change with her when she used the fone, to prove she intended to pay...Ha!

I was made up when I found this one on the net, as it has come up in conversation many times over the years.

This fone box is/was located on Ashfield & Picton Rd.

http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/7931/ashfieldpictonxz2.jpg

To make local calls we would use to fone on Cardigan street.

This is a screen capture of a youtube vid:Boys from the black stuff, 1982.
so the quality is not very good. This is the fone I mentioned in my ^^^other post.
Cardigan street between Alderson & Salisbury rd in Wavertree L15.

http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/3366/cardiganstreetboysfromthy7.jpg
I Know there is already a thread started for Boys from the Blackstuff, Good Stuff! so I wont post the video here.

It's not in colour, but it is/was a red phone box.
This pic is from the riots 1981. I think this picture was taken on Lodge Lane, any one know what street the phone box is on?

I use to live on top of a shop in the mid 60's on Lodge Lane and on the corner of Boswell street.

http://www.bwpics.co.uk/gallery/liverpoolpics/riots4.jpg

This is something I wrote that is closely connected to one of those old red phone boxes and their importance in our lives all those years ago.

SISTER

I can't remember the events leading up to my sister deciding that she wanted to be a nun, but I was very very young at the time so she wasn't likely to have consulted with me on the subject. I do remember the trip to the airport that day she flew over to England and left us. She was only a teenager herself but this was something she had always wanted to do.

She wasn't away on the foreign missions to Africa, Mam said. She was in Weymouth, where ever that was. May as well have been Africa for all I knew. After a few weeks I remember on a Sunday night us all trooping down our street and then another until we came to a big red telephone box. We all tried to cram in the big heavy door but those things aren't made for more than six people at a time.

Dad picked up the big heavy black plastic handle on a metal string and held it to the side of his head. He shushed us to be quiet as he listened to it. He was sure it was working and we just stood around with my Dad checking his watch every minute and walking up and down. Then it made a ringing noise and Mam picked it up before Dad got back into the box and she started to talk all excited.

It seemed like only seconds from the thing was ringing until it was silent again and we were walking back up that other street and then ours to come home. Mam didn't say very much as we walked back in the darkness but her eye must have got a draft in that big red phone box because her eyes were watering.

Dad broke the news to us when we were all safely sitting on the sofa at home. Our Mary wasn't called Mary any more. She was now called Sister Dorrithea. What a daft name I thought but I said nothing cause my Dad had caught that same draft Mam had in her eye.

Dangerous places those red phone boxes.

By Gerry Temple
copyright March 2008

red phone box,The Prince of Wales, Millers Bridge.
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The Goblin, Salisbury Street.
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