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18th Dec 2020, 11:06 pm | #1 |
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Telephone box installation
Hello, I don't normally frequents this area of the forum I found this on Facebook. I thought it might interest some people (I had to upload it as a PDF as I couldn't get the file image of my phone)
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23rd Dec 2020, 11:34 am | #2 |
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Re: Telephone box installation
Kiosk Trailer
https://www.britishtelephones.com/kioskins.htm Fairly sure the image was released in one of the collections of historic telephone postcards. |
23rd Dec 2020, 4:11 pm | #3 |
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Re: Telephone box installation
There's still at least one around. There's a guy who refurbishes the red boxes (not sure whether it's a business or not) who has one.
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23rd Dec 2020, 11:38 pm | #4 |
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Re: Telephone box installation
Hi.
In late October, the telephone kiosk in our local village was unceremoniously removed. The operatives (vandals) smashed the glass panels and crudely fed a chain through and lifted it on to a flat bed lorry. It joined several other vandalised boxes. To me it seems a sad end to an era of land line telephone communications. The phone box added character to the village but now is completely gone. Very sad. Regards, Symon Last edited by Philips210; 23rd Dec 2020 at 11:50 pm. |
24th Dec 2020, 2:01 am | #5 | |
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Re: Telephone box installation
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24th Dec 2020, 12:13 pm | #6 |
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Re: Telephone box installation
Interesting link Oscar Foxtrot
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24th Dec 2020, 7:59 pm | #7 |
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Re: Telephone box installation
Some serious money if you wanted one.
I always understood the K2 Boxes were "Listed Buildings" and could not be removed and sold I now live on the IOW, and when BT decided to remove our Red Boxes here in 1989, my understanding was they could be bought from the removal contractors for a "reasonable drink" if fact several are still languishing in peoples front Gardens were the Hiab Lorry dropped them. I suppose people bought them, then when they found out they weighed in over a Ton, and the shower cubical idea was not such a bright one For any one who's into Phone Kiosks, there's a very old K1 type located over here in the village of Bembridge. Ken G6HZG
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24th Dec 2020, 8:27 pm | #8 |
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Re: Telephone box installation
My understanding is that most, if not all, of those which have remained in situ are now listed structures, but that some had already been removed and passed into circulation by the time listing occurred. I assume it's these that occasionally turn up for sale.
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25th Dec 2020, 11:12 am | #9 |
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Re: Telephone box installation
I have a K6 in the garden, fully restored, and linked to the house, such that when the phone goes indoors, that in the kiosk rings too.
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25th Dec 2020, 11:23 am | #10 |
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Re: Telephone box installation
Round here, the local parish-councils were offered the chance to take over disused phone-booths if they paid BT the token sum of £1 each.
Since then several have been converted into community libraries, tourist-information points etc, all maintained by the parish/volunteers. Others - which were bought on the same basis - have not seen the expected support/interest and now, windows smashed, paint peeling - they're really no more than large-scale roadside litter. |
25th Dec 2020, 1:03 pm | #11 |
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Re: Telephone box installation
I assume that when they reversed that phonebox-lifting trailer up to one they were moving, they checked first, very carefully, that no-one was using it....
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25th Dec 2020, 4:12 pm | #12 |
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Re: Telephone box installation
Hopefully, the 'phone and any electrics were removed first.
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25th Dec 2020, 4:44 pm | #13 | |
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27th Dec 2020, 11:18 pm | #15 |
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Re: Telephone box installation
Hi.
There's an interesting website covering the various telephone kiosks over many years. http://www.the-telephone-box.co.uk/kiosks/ Regards, Symon |