Here’s another phone box that Mum and Dad found in Northumberland a couple of weeks back.
(Coordinates 55°40’07.8″N, 1°89’03.3″W.)
This is another village centre phone box, and unusually still has a phone inside. Bit tatty on the outside but it’s nice that it’s still functional!
A final box (for now) from Northumberland next week.
Here’s one that Mum and Dad found last week in Northumberland!
(Coordinates 55°30’97.0″N, 1°91’19.7″W.)
A nice village centre example. It’s difficult to see through the manky glass but Dad didn’t mention finding a phone inside – phones in phone boxes are getting rarer and rarer.
Another from Northumberland next week!
Before I started on the TechUP course, I was already into a lot of hobbyist tech stuff, as I’ve always found it interesting – and given that I spend pretty much my whole life in front of computer screens, I like to be able to solve problems myself when things don’t work as expected. This is part of the reason I jumped at the chance to do a proper software dev course.
Nevertheless, you would think that after five months of studying, I would be ready to run screaming away from tech stuff for a while. However, this is not at all the case. I am desperate to get back to my techy hobbies, as I’ve had absolutely no time to work on them for months! I won’t jump into anything with a deadline such as game comps and jams, as I do need a month or two off from *stress* after the course is finished, but I’m so excited to get back to playing with both hardware and software in a purely fun way – especially as I’m keen to utilise my new skills learnt on the course for some of my hobby projects.
This is also partly inspired by the fact that Dad arrived with some tools to revitalise my old dead laptop this morning (he and Mum are in town for his birthday today). Dad’s laptop-revitalising tools almost always consist of a Linux installation disk and a flash drive, and today was no exception. We were able to access my files as they were left when Windows stopped booting, so I have been able to back them up in their less jumbled state. This will be really helpful when getting everything properly organised on the new laptop.
I don’t need Windows on the old laptop any more, so once I’ve copied all my files, I’ll be installing Linux instead. However, I am developing quite a pile of old laptops upstairs with various builds of Linux put on them by Dad after they died as Windows machines, and I’m never going to need absolutely all of them as spare laptops. As such, I want to have a think about how they can be better repurposed. One of the many possibilities for the magical month of March (something I never thought I’d say about March) that will be here very soon.
I’ve updated the post for the Tynemouth box today.
I’d like to go out exploring again soon, and a day out in Tynemouth to revisit this box is high up on my list.
I did a quick update to the post for this Northampton box (actually one of a pair):
Updated post with coordinates added. I’d like to visit Northampton again some time.
I’m going back and updating a few of my early phone box posts to make sure they all have their coordinates linked to Google Maps. This will be very important for a future project that I hope to start working on this summer!
I first logged these in February 2018 (four years ago now, yikes!). Updated post here.
No new phone boxes spotted recently so here’s a news roundup.
The Surrey phone box graveyard has been featured on several local news sites this month. The restoration work on these sounds fab – just need to save up roughly the cost of a small used car so that I can buy one haha!
Further north, the North Yorkshire graveyard has also been doing the rounds again on local news sites this month, but it’s a recycled story from 2016 unfortunately.
Bill sent in this nice phone box picture earlier this week!
(Coordinates 53°19’10.8″N, 2°88’76.6″W.)
A relatively nicely-kept high street example, though I can’t see a phone inside so it looks like this one is just decorative and/or a potential future holder of a defibrillator/cash machine/mini-library/art installation.
…and it has a phone inside!
I’ve never had a phone case before but Mum and Dad got me a couple for Christmas. One is a plain clear plastic case that is useful for when I need to take my phone out running. The other is this lovely phone box case, which I’ve been clutching ever since Christmas Day!
Another phone box related Christmas gift to discuss next week.
Our final phone box for 2021 is this one that Mum and Dad found just north of Newcastle when visiting us earlier this month.
(Coordinates 55°04’32.1″N, 1°87’97.2″W.)
This one still has a phone in it, but also one of those sad little notices saying that the council are considering removing it. Hope an alternative use can be found!
Some fun phone box items to start 2022 next week.