Another five phone boxes updated with coordinate links today: here, here, here, here and here. A happier session this time round, with all five boxes still in place and one having become a defibrillator box!
10 more to go.
Category: Old Stuff
Phone Box Thursday: Corporation Road, Middlesbrough
Across the road from last week’s phone boxes, I also found one of these more modern black phone boxes (as previously seen in Bradford) that pay homage to the original K-series design!
(Coordinates 54°57’62.3″N, 1°23’39.9″W.)
I’ll need to do some more research on when these ones were installed!
Phone Box Thursday: Dunning Street, Middlesbrough
I spotted this lovely smart row of five when in Middlesbrough this last weekend!
(Coordinates 54°57’60.9″N, 1°23’34.8″W.)
They look like more of a decorative piece in this location next to the town hall. Great to see them being maintained so nicely!
Phone Box Thursday: Phone Box News
A bit of news on a phone box auction this week.
Phone boxes are expensive! I’d still love one for my garden though 😀
Phone Box Thursday: Midgar Phone Boxes
Geth has been playing Final Fantasy VII Remake this week. Final Fantasy VII is not set in the UK (far from it!) so we were pretty surprised to see some familiar-looking phone boxes in the game.
This is far from the first red phone box I’ve seen in a videogame (I’ve featured Professor Layton in the past and Disney Dreamlight Valley more recently, and at some point I’ll do a post on the Mass Effect 3 phone boxes) but certainly the first I’ve seen that’s not pertaining to the UK in any way!
These FFVII ones are even covered in flyers, just like real phone boxes 😀
Phone Box Thursday: Cruella’s Phone Box
Continuing the occasional theme of ‘red phone boxes in videogames’, one finally showed up in Disney Dreamlight Valley:
It appeared in the Cruella de Vil area of the newest expansion, Wishblossom Ranch. I have yoinked it to put next to my virtual house!
I’ve been posting a phone box post every Thursday since 1st February 2018 – that’s 418 Thursdays in a row including today! I will continue to do a phone-box-related post every week, but the main log of boxes will be on hiatus for a little while as I consolidate some things.
Phone Box Thursday: High Street, Burntisland
Dad captured this nice high street box in November.
(Coordinates 56°05’91.6″N, 3°23’43.5″W.)
(A few interesting changes to the building next door since the Street View image was taken a couple of years previously!)
This one appears to be a nice artwork/info showcase of some kind.
Phone Box Thursday: Toronto Revisit
Dad sent me an updated photo of the Toronto phone box from last September!
Still looking great and doing its job!
Phone Box Thursday: Center Parcs, Whinfell Forest
Here’s another one of the repurposed Center Parcs boxes sent in by Bill.
(Coordinates 54°63’38.6″N, 2°64’59.5″W).
Again, no evidence of the phone boxes in the 2012 Street View images but I’ve found the most likely spot.