Tag: Red Phone Boxes

Rumours of the hiatus in the phone box collection have been greatly exaggerated! (Well, until next week, when I really will start doing my alternative Phone Box Thursday posts… unless another phone box picture shows up in the meantime!)

Mum and Dad found this phone box last Friday, while staying at their caravan in Dumfries and Galloway for the first time since lockdown started.

(Coordinates 54°89’63.6″N, 4°38’11.6″W.)

The box no longer has a phone in it but doesn’t seem to be at immediate risk of being removed. However, it is slightly rusty-looking, so possibly not being maintained quite as well as it could be.

More phone box goodness (in some form) next week!

One last phone box photo sent by Bill and Fiona in February.

(Coordinates 50°06’57.5″N, 5°71’32.5″W.)

I think the Street View image linked above must be fairly old, as the building has changed quite a lot since then! The phone boxes are still in very good condition, though, as is often the case with phone boxes at tourist attractions – they tend to be kept in a fairly museum-worthy state.

Land’s End is an appropriate location for these photos, because at the time of writing, this is the last red phone box photo in my collection – I’ve shown you everything I have. However, Mum and Dad are finally able to visit their holiday caravan again, so I’m hoping they will find me some more phone boxes in rural Scotland soon!

In the meantime, Phone Box Thursday will continue, though it will take a different form for a while…

This week’s phone box is another one that Bill and Fiona found in Cornwall earlier this year – a very nicely repainted one this time.

(Coordinates 50°33’57.4″N, 4°63’75.2″W.)

The box is also painted in this nice blue and green colour scheme in the above Street View image, which must be fairly recent. But wait…

If you try to move closer to the phone box, you get this older image, which shows how the box looked when it was still red!

While the classic red colour is iconic, I do like the look of interestingly-repainted phone boxes – it indicates that they’re being looked after, if nothing else!

One last phone box picture from Cornwall next week.

So… when I said last week that we’d be moving back up north, just pretend I actually said ‘west’ – I’d forgotten which phone box series I was scheduled to do next!

Bill very kindly sent me a few phone box pictures from a trip to Cornwall in February, so we will be enjoying the land of pirates and beaches for the next couple of weeks (I wish I was there for real right now – I bet it’s glorious at the moment).

(Coordinates 50°32’15.5″N, 4°77’00.4″W.)

A nice smart defibrillator box, which means it will hopefully be of use for some time. The defibrillator company posted on Facebook about the installation of the defibrillator – it has been in place since 2018, apparently!

More from Cornwall next week.

Here’s the last of the phone boxes that Mum and Dad found for me while on their adventures in 2019.

(Coordinates 54°69’17.2″N, 4°91’22.9″W.)

This is quite a fun one! It’s been overgrown with ivy, which is now protruding inside the box. Probably not the greatest thing for the health of the phone box, but it looks very cool!

The Google Street View image, as is standard for rural Scotland, is from a decade previously in 2009 – at which point the box was not ivy-laden at all! Maybe at some point it will be immersed totally, escape the fate of being shipped off to the phone box graveyard, and be rediscovered by archaeologists in a few centuries’ time…

Update April 2023: it was a nice thought, but no. The phone box is now ivy-free!

An interesting example from Mum and Dad’s Scottish travels today.

(Coordinates 55°14’45.0″N, 4°83’12.0″W.)

However… the coordinates above aren’t quite correct, as is obvious if you look at the box’s surroundings in the Google Street View image! According to Dad, the phone box is currently in a temporary position:

‘This phone box is in Pinwherry, on the A714.

It appears to be in the process of being moved – as you can see, it’s in
a field. There’s a notice which says where the nearest defibrillator is
(some way away); the box is being turned into a defibrillator box.

Its present position is close to, but not exactly where it is on Google
street view.’

I did try to find the coordinates of the current location, but I’m not sure it’s accessible via Street View! I can’t see the wooden gate (seen in the below wider shot) anywhere…

…but judging by the scenery, I’m guessing it’s roughly here.

I don’t know where the box will eventually end up, but I hope the defibrillator will be of good use if necessary!