Still on the same route as before but have now entered Wales.
(Coordinates 52°25’76.8″N, 3°26’21.0″W.)
This one houses both a defibrillator and a book exchange! Double modern function.
We’ll be in Wales for a couple of months now – lots of phone boxes to share!
Still heading west out of the Midlands towards Wales.
(Coordinates 52°21’81.7″N, 2°89’31.5″W.)
This one still has a phone in it! Presumably working and maybe in semi-regular use. It’s also a nice well-kept box.
Into Wales next week!
Another defibrillator!
(Coordinates 52°22’64.2″N, 2°75’12.9″W.)
As you can tell from the dedication to the late paramedic, this is a relatively recent defibrillator – in the 2021 Street View image, the phone box looks fairly tatty and unloved. It’s been given a coat of paint and looks to be well cared for now.
More from the area next week.
A town centre phone box today.
(Coordinates 52°22’67.5″N, 2°73’95.6″W.)
This one still has a phone inside! Unusual for a town centre phone box. Wonder if it gets much use?
More from Leominster next week.
We’re still close to the Malvern area, but now heading west.
(Coordinates 52°07’27.6″N, 2°52’05.3″W.)
Like last week’s box, this is a combined information point and book exchange. A good double use!
Slightly further up the road next week.
Still in the Malvern area this week!
(Coordinates 52°07’79.3″N, 2°33’23.8″W.)
This one is an information point and book exchange. It looks very well stocked and used!
Anne also sent me a link to this lovely Christmassy phone box image (links to Facebook). Nice to have a Christmas phone box picture!
More from the Malvern area next week.
Another from this last September!
(Coordinates 52°07’86.9″N, 2°32’64.8″W.)
This one has a ‘no cash, no problem!’ sign… but also no phone, so you won’t be paying to make a phone call here using cash or anything else.
Another from the area next week.
An uprooted phone box today!
(Coordinates 52°08’44.6″N, 2°27’42.4″W.)
This phone box has been fairly recently re-rooted. It doesn’t appear in the Street View image from November 2021, so it must be a relatively new acquisition on the part of the Swan Inn. Wonder where it was originally?
It’s pretty empty, but it does look nice!
Another phone box from the Midlands series!
(Coordinates 52°40’80.8″N, 2°11’49.3″W.)
This one is another book exchange – its purple roof is presumably a remnant of the Platinum Jubilee, as it had a Union Flag painted on the roof at the time the Street View image was taken in 2021.
Another Midlands box today.
(Coordinates 52°39’29.6″N, 2°11’78.0″W.)
Still a pole attached to this box, but no phone inside as it’s become a book exchange, like many other boxes in the modern day.