A Cumbrian phone box today, from Mum and Dad’s travels earlier this year.
(Coordinates 54°66’74.5″N, 3°24’40.9″W.)
(You can’t see the phone box in the Street View image as it’s hidden by the edge of the building, but that’s where it is.)
This is a well-advertised defib box (it’s marked as a public-use defibrillator on Google Maps) and has been specially moved to the old railway station, as it’s not in its original place.
Geth and I found this one on a Sunday morning run along the Thames back in March.
(Coordinates 51°50’85.8″N, 0°10’71.1″W.)
Not its original location, of course! The Google vehicles haven’t visited since 2014, which was long before Curzon Sea Containers moved into their current premises. It looks very nice as a decoration/advert though!
Back up north next week.
Here’s one that I found outside Hampton Court Palace when Geth and I were walking from the station to Bushy parkrun back in March.
(Coordinates 51°40’49.2″N, 0°34’15.3″W.)
With bonus palace gate statues in the background!
Another from London next week.
Mum and Dad report that the artistic blue phone box in New Galloway is still going strong as of this last March:
Could perhaps do with a paint touchup but it still looks very nice!
A bit further south next week.
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.
