Category: Old Stuff

Another Midlands phone box today.

(Coordinates 52°36’54.4″N, 2°15’76.4″W.)

This one still has a phone inside. Wonder how much it gets used?

More from the area next week.

Yes, the street name is the same as the village.

This is the first of a very long series of phone boxes found by Mum and Dad in the Midlands and Wales back in September. We’ll be looking at these until well into 2024! Let’s begin with this defibrillator box.

(Coordinates 52°36’05.7″N, 2°15’98.5″W.)

Always nice to see this particular reuse! You hope it will never be needed, but it will always be worthwhile.

Dad took another photo of the Cramond phone box recently.

Difficult to see if the phone is still inside, but it generally continues to be a very well-kept box.

Bit of a non-update for this one! I originally logged it in September 2020, when it was seemingly at imminent risk of removal…

…but it’s still there and it still has its phone in! Fewer intact panels three years later, perhaps?

Another revisit next week.

Mum and Dad found this repurposed (and seemingly relocated) box on their Highland travels.

(Coordinates 56°41’31.0″N, 5°47’10.6″W.)

This phone box wasn’t there in the 2016 Street View image, so it must have been adopted by the centre to use as a book exchange. Wonder where it was originally?

Here’s another Scottish phone box found by Mum and Dad; this appears to be the only phone box on the small island of Lismore.

(Coordinates 56°51’15.1″N, 5°49’34.4″W.)

No phone in this one – it’s used as a tourist information box. Which is probably a very practical use given its location!

Here’s another from Mum and Dad’s trip to western Scotland.

(Coordinates 56°23’09.6″N, 5°54’77.8″W.)

I was confused when searching on Street View at first as there’s another red phone box just up the road – it’s a bit more tucked away so Mum and Dad must have missed it! The other one is being used as an ‘eggbox’ but this one featured today has a real phone in it. It also has a nice white frosted effect on the pane surrounds, though I don’t think that’s deliberate.

Here’s another one found by Mum and Dad in the west Highlands.

(Coordinates 56°07’32.0″N, 5°52’91.4″W.)

This one is fairly tatty but does still have a phone in. And a ‘we’re thinking about removing it’ sign 🙁

More from this area next week.

Here’s another one that Mum and Dad found in western Scotland.

(Coordinates 56°09’08.5″N, 5°55’65.4″W.)

A fairly isolated example. This one still has a phone in!

A few phone boxes from Western Scotland for the next few weeks. Mum and Dad found several while visiting our old caravan stomping grounds near Oban.

(Coordinates 56°42’93.7″N, 5°23’89.3″W.)

It appears to be being used as a ‘community food hub’, which is a type of reuse I’ve not seen before!