Here’s the final box from Mum and Dad’s trip to the north of Scotland.
(Coordinates 58°05’27.5″N, 5°03’07.7″W.)
You can’t really see through the grimy glass, but this one still has a phone in it! Getting rarer and rarer to find intact phones.
Another box from the north of Scotland today.
(Coordinates 57°81’96.6″N, 5°06’26.9″W.)
Another one that could do with a lick of paint… and a bit of TLC in general! No phone inside so maybe not long for this world 🙁
Mum and Dad have been travelling in Scotland again and have found me a few more phone boxes. Here’s one in Catlodge.
(Coordinates 57°00’73.2″N, 4°25’18.8″W.)
Some very tatty paintwork (a theme for the next few weeks) and no phone inside. Looks like the greenery is also encroaching into the interior!
Update September 2024: still tatty!
An interlude today! Normally I only focus on classic red K-series British phone boxes (because I’m less interested in the KX-series boxes that came in from the mid-1980s onwards), but I had read about Norway’s equivalent while preparing for my trip last week, and was delighted to come across a Norwegian red phone box when Geth and I were exploring the museum district.
(Coordinates 59°90’43.5″N, 10°68’63.2″E.)
Phone boxes in Norway generally seem to be treated with a bit more care than they are here, and there was an interesting plaque inside this one explaining the history of this series of boxes:
Like many village boxes in the UK, this box is used as a book exchange:
Still a phone inside as well!
An interesting wee example.
Adding coordinates for the King Street West box today!
Now that I’m poking my nose out into the world again, I’m hopeful of going back to Toronto and this box sooner rather than later.
Revisiting the Durham train station phone box today as I continue adding coordinates to all my old boxes for my upcoming map project.
I was pleased to discover today that you can Google Street View the platform of Durham station. I wonder how they got the Google car in there? Maybe they had to use a human for that one.
Another Grassmarket revisit this week.
It was really nice to see some of these central Edinburgh phone boxes during the early stages of the marathon the other day!
Another coordinates update for another box from my January 2016 collection!
I’ve not been down to the Grassmarket for a while but Google Street View tells me nothing has changed 🙂
Another update to another Edinburgh phone box!
Those Hunter Square boxes were a real landmark for me back in my youth in Edinburgh.
