Tag: Red Phone Boxes

Here’s a phone box that we spotted while out on a family trip a couple of weeks ago, when Mum and Dad were visiting!

(Coordinates 54°95’65.7″N, 1°78’20.3″W.)

The phone box is a recent addition, as it doesn’t show up in the Street View image. It’s in the garden of a location that looks like a B&B or similar. It would certainly make a good B&B location as the phone box would be a real talking point!

It doesn’t look like a working box – it’s being used as an aesthetic feature. Which is certainly a better use than being scrapped, like so many phone boxes sadly are these days!

Mum and Dad found me this phone box in southwest Scotland!

(Coordinates 55°49’23.8″N, 3°69’21.7″W.)

It still has a phone in it, but also a notice from BT saying they’re thinking about removing it 🙁

Update July 2024: it’s had a coat of paint! And they haven’t removed the phone yet, though the notice was still there.

Still no phone boxes in my life so I’ve been planning phone box tourism instead (to be fair this is not just about phone boxes; it’s going to be nice to stick my nose out of Newcastle every now and again when the pandemic eventually goes away).

Next time I’m in London (which, everything crossed, will be for the marathon in October) I would love to go and see the ‘Out Of Order’ sculpture. I’ve seen a lot of London phone boxes but not these ones!

It is probably not at all surprising that this is just one of many phone box destinations on my list…

Still no new phone box finds here in 2021 but Dad found me a cracker from the family archives. This is a slide taken in 1965 by Grandad, who used to like taking photos of trams (if you’ve ever wondered where I get all my strange forms of nerdery from, look no further than my immediate Cooke family ancestors). On this happy occasion he happened to capture a phone box as well!

(Coordinates 53°32’86.7″N, 3°83’88.2″W.)

Yes, it’s still there! As are the buildings and even the tram lines, though I’m not sure if they’re still in use. The buildings are no longer shops, but still very recognisable.

1960s shop signs always look very cartoony to me (this is probably caused by my general ‘1960s=cartoon’ vibe that I was talking about last week) and make me think they’re on a film or TV set, as 1960s productions always have signs that look like that. I don’t know why I find it hard to believe they looked like that in real life too!

Dad found this phone box for me while out cycling in Cramond recently.

(Coordinates 55°97’95.6″N, 3°30’03.1″W.)

It still has a phone inside and looks well-kept!

This phone box is also the subject of a very nice postcard print. Perhaps one for my home décor collection at some point.

Update November 2023: still well-kept!

Another box spotted by Mum and Dad on their road trip last month.

(Coordinates 55°85’48.7″N, 2°86’56.0″W.)

You often see phone boxes in the yards of village shops like this. It doesn’t look like it still has a phone in though.

Another Scottish find next week!

Odd title I know. The street name is Temple, and so is the village name. Mum and Dad drove through it on their road trip the other week.

(Coordinates 55°81’54.0″N, 3°09’15.1″W.)

It was hard to find an angle on Street View where the image wasn’t doing the weird ‘turn all the red things green’ effect that it sometimes does!

This one still has a phone in. Nice to see!

I can finally do some phone box logging again! The relaxation of restrictions in Scotland has meant that Mum and Dad have been out and about for the first time in months and have found me some more phone boxes, which will feature over the next few weeks.

(Coordinates 55°83’33.8″N, 3°08’90.7″W.)

Always great to see an adapted defibrillator box. Lovely location too.

More from Scotland next week!