I was just going to say that! :)Quote:
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I was just going to say that! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by marky
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.
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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/121/2...44de8b78df.jpgQuote:
Originally Posted by Steven
^^Posted a while ago^^
Kev
Found this one hidden away in your 'Gateacre Village' thread >>>>
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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:
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July 1990.
Sorry it's so poor, but this is part of the background of a photo of somebody who's shy!
Even Closer.Quote:
Originally Posted by phredd
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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:
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Swedish Polar Bears inside that phone box:
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^^Pic (c) Daz^^
A homeless mans beard!:PDT_Aliboronz_24::PDT10
Telephone Box, Hill Head near Portsmouth, Hampshire.
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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 !,Quote:
Originally Posted by A.D.Williams
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
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Originally Posted by MerseysideTransportTrust
Wavertree High Street/Picton Road.
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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?Quote:
Originally Posted by taffy
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.
I think they're originals. The Woodside ferry terminal has been laid out as a heritage centre as well as a passenger terminalQuote:
Originally Posted by ChrisGeorge
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
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There is a red telephone box at Chester Zoo
better views of the Town Hall ones
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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
late last yearQuote:
Originally Posted by edwardo
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/img156/7...dpictonxz2.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/img149/3...ysfromthy7.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/live...ics/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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red phone box in the driveway of Sefton Meadows garden centre.
Sefton lane.
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?
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I only noticed it because it's in front of a former cinema (the Ritz/ABC).
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Outside Holy Trinity Church, Warrington.
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