Mum and Dad made another visit to the formerly blue phone box in Bonjedward.
In addition to being red again, this phone box, while still housing a phone, now has a notice inside that the payphone may be removed 🙁 Hopefully they will at least leave the box itself for reuse.
Here’s another one that Mum and Dad found on the way up through the Scottish Borders from Northumberland.
(Coordinates 55°51’48.6″N, 2°49’58.6″W.)
This one is now an info box, as you might guess from the village name in the sign! No phone but lots of leaflets.
Here’s another one that Mum and Dad found in Northumberland.
(Coordinates 55°59’66.6″N, 2°22’85.0″W.)
This one still has a phone in! Fairly rural so possibly still sees some use.
More from Northumberland next week.
Mum and Dad sent me this one, which they’d been hunting for a while.
(Coordinates 55°60’72.3″N, 1°71’57.5″W.)
No phone inside and at risk of removal according to the notice 🙁 We’ll keep an eye on what happens with this one.
Here’s another one that Dad found while driving.
(Coordinates 55°90’73.1″N, 3°25’89.1″W.)
This phone box is in Colinton, on the outskirts of Edinburgh. It’s been reused as an information exchange, presumably for flyers relating to the local area.
Clare sent in a picture of the Felton ‘info box’ phone box!
It looks so much smarter now they’ve given it a coat of paint – it was very tatty last time we saw it! Still in good use, it appears.
Back to Scotland next week.
Here’s the final phone box from World Showcase at Epcot!
(Coordinates 28°37’06.9″N, 81°55’16.5″W.)
With more bonus Christmas decorations! (And lots of people in the background in winter running gear. It was unusually cold for Florida, even for a Florida winter.)
I did go to see all of these phone boxes in a more leisurely context a few days later, but I’m glad I took the photos in the dark while running the 5k. It was an important part of the race.
One more Disney-related item of interest next week!
This is the second of the three Epcot phone boxes I photographed during the Walt Disney World 5k.
(Coordinates 28°37’06.9″N, 81°55’16.5″W.)
I didn’t have time during the race to investigate the contents of these phone boxes but I’m guessing they’re props.
It’s part of a double but I snapped them separately. The other coming next week!
I’m used to spotting the odd phone box while running races in the UK (and making a mental note so that I can go back and photograph it later if it’s the kind of race where I don’t want to stop!) but it’s less expected to see them during races abroad!
However, Epcot at Walt Disney World (where the RunDisney races start and end) contains a World Showcase, with mini areas dedicated to various countries around the world. The United Kingdom area, of course, includes phone boxes (presumably original ones shipped across the Atlantic following disuse, though I haven’t done the research into this).
I stopped to take photos as soon as I saw them while running the 5k. Here’s the first, next to the ‘Rose and Crown’ pub!
(Coordinates 28°37’03.9″N, 81°55’18.4″W.)
Love the festive wreath too. Christmas decorations were still up at Disney when we were there in early January, which was nice!
More from Epcot next week.
