Here’s another Scottish one from Mum and Dad.
(Coordinates 55°26’35.2″N, 3°77’96.9″W.)
This poor box is a bit tatty 🙁 but does have a notice inside asking if anyone in the community wants to adopt it. Hopefully there’ll be a happy ending!
Mum and Dad revisited the Carsluith phone box in September last year!
Good news about this phone box – it’s now serving a useful purpose as a book and seed exchange:
I’m really pleased about that as this phone box looked like it wasn’t long for this world when last visited in 2020.
More from Scotland next week.
Here’s one near Loch Ness that Mum and Dad found on their way back from Orkney.
(Coordinates 57°26’89.5″N, 4°39’54.4″W.)
This phone box has some interesting contents. In addition to retaining its phone, it also has a jar of pickled onions and a visitor’s book (which Dad signed).
Here’s one that Mum and Dad found at the fossil museum in Orkney!
(Coordinates 58°85’82.1″N, 2°91’11.3″W.)
It’s in the yard of the museum, which perhaps makes it an exhibit!
One more from Orkney next week.
A slightly tatty one from Orkney today.
(Coordinates 59°06’17.5″N, 3°02’10.3″W.)
This one has no door (though it did a couple of years previously, as can be seen in the Street View image linked above). It could do with a bit of TLC, but it does have a phone in!
We’re still in Orkney (there is a Twatt in Shetland too!).
(Coordinates 59°09’80.4″N, 3°27’47.0″W.)
Another fairly rural box that still has a phone in!
Here’s another phone box from Mum and Dad’s Orkney trip.
(Coordinates 58°96’88.9″N, 3°22’90.7″W.)
This is another one that still has its phone in, which appears to be common in Orkney!
Here’s one that Mum and Dad found in rural Orkney.
(Coordinates 58°92’96.2″N, 2°76’28.1″W.)
It’s a bit tatty but it does have a phone in! Most likely because it’s in the middle of nowhere.
Here’s one that Mum and Dad found among the warren-like streets of Kirkwall!
(Coordinates 58°98’37.3″N, 2°95’77.3″W.)
Apparently this one was quite popular with the German tourists that day! It also still has a phone in.
Always nice to see one alongside a postbox.
(Can I make the ‘Phone Boxing Day’ joke again? Yes? Yes? No?*)
We’re still in Orkney, and here’s one outside a seemingly-closed post office.
(Coordinates 58°89’57.5″N, 2°91’50.7″W.)
This one does have a phone in! However, Dad notes that yet again, it was not listed on the Ordnance Survey map. This seems to be a theme for this part of northern Scotland.
*Either way, apparently whenever Boxing Day falls on a Thursday, I end up doing a post about a phone box outside a post office in the Northern Isles…