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    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.


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    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.

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    red phone box,The Prince of Wales, Millers Bridge.
    http://inacityliving.piczo.com/?g=41057337&cr=7

    The Goblin, Salisbury Street.
    http://inacityliving.piczo.com/?g=41057337&cr=7

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    red phone box in the driveway of Sefton Meadows garden centre.
    Sefton lane.
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    Default Another rare telephone box.

    This is in Warrington and is similar to the one in Frodsham.
    I'd heard that there's only about four left.
    Can anyone confirm that?



    I only noticed it because it's in front of a former cinema (the Ritz/ABC).



    Outside Holy Trinity Church, Warrington.

    Last edited by PhilipG; 07-14-2008 at 10:00 AM.

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    Wow, that's interesting - I've never seen a phone box with a post box attached. I didn't know there was such a thing.

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    The K4 was basically a K2 (like the large one at the Town Hall) with modifications.
    they are rare and were nicknamed the Vermillion Giant!

    the others are in Whitley Bay, Frodsham, Humberside and Somerset.
    there's also one due for restoration in Bury and I've heard there's one tucked away in Bewdley somewhere.

    they never caught on as the noise of the stamp machine interfered with phone calls. Plus damp weather could affect the stamp machine and stamps stuck together on the roll.
    only 50 were made.

    I do like my phoneboxes and postboxes and trains and buses
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    Thanks for info Quincy.

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    Quote Originally Posted by lindylou View Post
    Thanks for info Quincy.
    I second that emotion.

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    no problemo
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    Some of these telephones are Listed Buildings. It seems odd that all of the K6's are not Listed Buildings, unless the Council are unaware of the others. Here's the Listed ones:
    Exchange Street West (Town Hall pair), High Street L15 , Lime Street, Rodney Street, St Johns Lane.

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    Default Red Telephone Kiosks In Merseyside - Part 1, L1 And L2

    Dear all,

    Greetings.

    I came across this thread and have a few pictures to add.

    The pictures are all of the 'classic' metal style kiosks, i.e. the K2 and K6 (no examples of the K4 kiosk
    were ever installed in Merseyside and no K8 kiosks remain.

    To my knowledge, in the Liverpool (L) postcode area, there are at least 31 examples in 28 locations.
    I will attempt to post these up by postcode area.

    Not all of these have a working telephone and some are on private land and may not be accessible
    at all times and/or visible from public roads. The examples on private land are not necessarily
    painted the standard BS381C 538 Post Office Red Cherry or BS381C 539 Currant Red.

    L1, Cathedral, City centre

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    L1, Lime Street, City Centre, GII Listed (x2)

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    L1, Rodney Street, City centre, GII Listed

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    L1, St John's Lane, City centre, GII Listed

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    L1, Entrance to Queensway Tunnel, City centre

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    L2, Exchange Street East L2, Town Hall, GII Listed. The kiosk nearest the camera is a K2,
    one of only three K2 kiosks still in use outside Greater London.

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    L2, Mathew Street (Inside the Cavern Club)

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    L6, Hampstead Road, Fairfield

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    L7, Catherine Street/Myrtle Street

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    L8, Catherine Street/Little Catherine Street

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    L9, Longmoor Lane

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    L9, Rice Lane, Walton

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    L12, Almonds Green, West Derby

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    L12, Town Row/Mill Lane, West Derby

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    L15, High Street, Wavertree, GII Listed

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    L17, Waverley Road, Lark Lane

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    L18, Rosedale Road, Allerton

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    L21, Bridge Road, Litherland

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    L21, Litherland Park, Litherland

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    L22, Rockland Road, Waterloo

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    L22, St. Johns Road, Waterloo

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