Tag: Red Phone Boxes

We’re still chugging along the Embankment on the last stretch of the London Marathon!

(Coordinates 51°50’73.5″N, 0°12’17.7″W.)

There are a lot of London phone boxes that have been repainted black and repurposed as wifi hubs – a good modern use for them!

In up-to-date phone box news, the family and I have found lots of them while out exploring this week! They’ll all get posted later in the year.

In the meantime, here’s another one from the final stretch of the London Marathon!

(Coordinates 51°50’96.1″N, 0°11’88.2″W.)

That slightly blurry structure sticking straight out of the top of the phone box is in fact the London Eye.

A slightly different phone box from the Embankment next week!

Another of the many phone boxes that line the Victoria Embankment along the final stretch of the London Marathon.

(Coordinates 51°51’08.9″N, 0°11’36.9″W.)

The fact that this is a standard K6 is quite unusual for the Victoria Embankment, which is mostly full of K2s!

More from this stretch next week.

It might be the final stretch of the London Marathon, but we’ll be on this embankment for a while because there are a LOT of phone boxes there!

(Coordinates 51°51’10.4″N, 0°11’07.2″W.)

I really like the glass mural in the back of this one – it shines beautifully through the box on a sunny day.

It’s another phone box from the London Marathon route – the last before we get into the giant series of phone boxes that run along the Thames on the final stretch leading up to the Houses of Parliament.

(Coordinates 51°50’96.6″N, 0°07’89.6″W.)

Paint could be touched up a bit on this one, but it doesn’t look too bad!

This is another phone box that I snapped while running the London Marathon – it stands right opposite the Cutty Sark in Greenwich.

(Coordinates 51°48’32.1″N, 0°00’94.6″W.)

(We’ll just pause here while I have a nerd moment about that longitude coordinate being so pleasingly close to zero! Annoyingly, in tracing the route on Google Street View, I found that I missed a phone box that was even closer, so I’ll need to go back to the area next time I’m in London.)

What’s interesting about this phone box is that it’s red on the inside as well, which is more obvious now that it’s seemingly been emptied of its contents. I hope it stays around as it provides a nice bit of decoration for the tourist-ridden Cutty Sark promenade.

It’s another phone box from the London Marathon route!

(Coordinates 51°48’63.1″N, 0°01’62.4″E.)

This is another nice example of a K2 – it really brightens up the Greenwich streets. Difficult for councils to keep all those small panes intact though!

It’s the second of the London Marathon phone boxes!

(Coordinates 51°48’57.9″N, 0°06’28.2″E.)

Apologies that this one is very blurry – there was a water station in the way and I was trying to zoom in while still semi-running! You can see it much more clearly in the Google Street View image linked above.

It’s a bulbous-topped K2, like many of the phone boxes you see on London streets!

This is the last of the batch of phone boxes that Mum and Dad found in Dumfries and Galloway earlier this year.

(Coordinates 54°91’10.6″N, 4°46’47.3″W.)

This box is out of use nowadays, but it’s still very well kept by the local council. Maybe they’re planning to find an alternative use for it at some point!

BONUS PHONE BOX NEWS FOR THIS WEEK: As of today you have 26 days left to watch Dial ‘B’ for Britain: The Story of the Landline on iPlayer. It’s a fascinating history of telephones in 20th century Britain, which is of course one of my favourite subjects! I highly recommend it if you’re at all interested in phones or engineering or British culture, or even if you just remember the 20th century and fancy a bit of nostalgia.

We’ll be heading down to London next week for the first of my London Marathon phone box finds!