Phone boxes

[Taz]

End of another British icon ?
One near us has signs on it saying it's being removed

https://news.sky.com/story/amp/thou...ng-as-bt-offers-them-for-just-1-each-12246688

 

[backwoodsman]

End of another British icon ?
One near us has signs on it saying it's being removed

https://news.sky.com/story/amp/thou...ng-as-bt-offers-them-for-just-1-each-12246688

I'm rather ambivalent about them. Iconic yes, but for a good number of years, most of them have only been used as urinals.

I guess you could buy it. Use it as an outdoor cocktail cabinet in your garden? Of the two nearest us, one has been a library for about 10-12 years, and the other is a mini art gallery..

 

[Taz]

The one in the town centre is used to house the defibrillator, but still keeps getting vandalised.

 

[Bdill93]

Ive seen loads around Worcester taken over by the local community for defibs, book exchanges, childrens art displays!

Get the community together and save the phone box!

 

[chrisd]

End of another British icon ?
One near us has signs on it saying it's being removed

https://news.sky.com/story/amp/thou...ng-as-bt-offers-them-for-just-1-each-12246688

A few years back there was a business not too far from you who bought up phone boxes, sand blasted them, repainted them and sold them for a fair profit. I suspect they ran out of them as stocks dwindled

 

[AmandaJR]

Our village one is a mini library - the couple two doors along maintain it and swap the books around.

 

[Robster59]

I'm quite nostalgic about these kind of things but in reality, they are now something that no longer really fulfill their original use. I can't remember the last time I used one to be honest but I will still be sad to see them go.
There will be people who will still keep them going, for others uses purely for nostalgia.

 

[Bunkermagnet]

As a phone box they are redundant now, and only used as a toilet or street girl advertising venue. I have seen a few turned into ATM’s though.
But now in the current climate of anger,I would have thought someone might look at them as an opportunity as a street side safe box. They are heavy and substantial enough, you could refurbish them instal a direct to police communication link, security camera so that whoever enters the box is seen and recorded, perhaps a lock that can only be activated from inside the box to lock the door. I would have thought something like that would make a big impact on the female feeling of safety out on the streets, or anyone TBH.

 

[jim8flog]

We still have one opposite the Post Office. I cannot remember if it is still has a phone in though.

I remember when they switched to phone cards and getting really annoyed when my phone card with a good amount of credit on it stopped working.

 

[Lord Tyrion]

A mate of mine bought one when they first started to be replaced. He put it in his hallway, put plants in it. It was a nice feature.

My SiL was in one phoning home to her mum when at university. The converstation went as follows:

Hi mum, how are you are?
Fine, how are you doing?
That's odd, I can smell smoke. Aarrgh, someone has set fire to the phone box, have to go..........

Dead line. Mobile phones are so much easier.....

 

[Deleted member 18645]

There was a blue police one opposite me once but it just mysteriously disappeared

 

[backwoodsman]

Just recalled, there's one in Greenwich that's used by a street vendor & has got a coffee machine in it

 

[ExRabbit]

We have 3 locally which are book exchanges now.

 

[MegaSteve]

About the only ones I am aware of, remaining in these parts, are in Uxbridge tube station's forecourt...
Believe they are used for storage by a street vendor...

 

[clubchamp98]

As a phone box they are redundant now, and only used as a toilet or street girl advertising venue. I have seen a few turned into ATM’s though.
But now in the current climate of anger,I would have thought someone might look at them as an opportunity as a street side safe box. They are heavy and substantial enough, you could refurbish them instal a direct to police communication link, security camera so that whoever enters the box is seen and recorded, perhaps a lock that can only be activated from inside the box to lock the door. I would have thought something like that would make a big impact on the female feeling of safety out on the streets, or anyone TBH.

So a panic room on the high street .
Must have pros and cons .
But a very good idea.

 

[clubchamp98]

There was a blue police one opposite me once but it just mysteriously disappeared

Undercover.