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K6 & other GPO Telephone Boxes

Started by david@london, April 26, 2012, 02:54:29 PM

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countryman

#120
Quote from: tubaman on February 10, 2021, 04:56:44 AM
A lot of these boxes now hold defibrillators rather than a phone - ...

Now that will be an electrifying experience for a person who wonders how these new smart payphones look like, and presses that thing to the ear.  :o

david@london

......but where do they keep their spare change for the phone?

david@london

More info on K series kiosks & Tudor Crowns in this article from today's Oldie magazine -

https://www.theoldie.co.uk/blog/my-great-phonebox-discovery-justin-warshaw-qc

Emperor Trajan's Kiosk on Agilkia Island in Egypt -

Key2871

Now that's a fancy phone box!
KEN

FABphones

British Police 'Public Call' Box. C. 1948.

The original Tardis.  :)

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A message from the seaside.
Great Yarmouth. C. 1937.
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FABphones

First telephone kiosk, London, England. C. 1914.

First Telephone kiosk, Nottingham, England. C. 1908.
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david@london

The kiosk in the "Eat More Herrings" photo looks like a K3...

Some detailed info here ... https://www.britishtelephones.com/k3.htm

david@london

Quote from: Key2871 on March 15, 2021, 07:55:15 PM
Now that's a fancy phone box!

Haha, very true....can't expect a Roman Emperor to phone from just anywhere.

A K8 box featured in the Rumpole of the Bailey TV series. These screenshots from Rumpole & the Official Secret ...note the Victoria Tower at the Palace of Westminster in background.

FABphones

#128
Wow David@. How many times must I have passed that and never knew it's history. Thank you.

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Positioned at the side of a car park in France, in the middle of a town centre, I have absolutely no idea why. No phone in there, something akin to a wooden box was hanging loose.

I was rushing and had no time to investigate or take better photos.

A beautiful property in the background, almost Addams Family-esque.
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Vintage Phones - 10% man made, 90% Tribble
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Jim Stettler

Quote from: FABphones on June 25, 2021, 02:07:38 PM
Wow David@. How many times must I have passed that and never knew it's history. Thank you.

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On a day when things just kept going wrong this familiar friend appeared out of nowhere and said hello, chin up.

Positioned at the side of a car park in France, in the middle of a town centre, I have absolutely no idea why. No phone in there, something akin to a wooden box was hanging loose.

I was rushing and had no time to investigate or take better photos.

A beautiful property in the background, almost Addams Family-esque.

It may be available as a local history restore project.
or as a donation gift ownership.
Just some thoughts.
Jim
You live, You learn,
You die, you forget it all.

david@london

A nocturnal photograph of Leicester Square, London 1934 by Harold Burdekin, with K2 kiosk.

https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/11/05/burdekins-london-nights-x/

david@london

Additional images of AA (Automobile Assoc., UK) emergency kiosks...these were for use by AA members who were sent a pass key on joining the organisation and could then telephone for assistance in the event of a breakdown.

Question to American + Canadian members.....do similar AAA and CAA kiosks exist over there?

19and41

I've never heard of such kiosks here, although I'm sure if there were any they would be promptly commandeered as either a homeless shelter or a privy.
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
— Arthur C. Clarke

19and41

Sorry, the query I was responding to is missing from the thread.
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
— Arthur C. Clarke

david@london

#134
From the Keighley News 20 Dec 2019

Phone kiosk in field given listed status
By David Knights

A DECREPIT phone box in a beckside field at remote Newsholme Dean has received National Heritage List status. The kiosk alongside the weir at Dean Beck, near Laycock and Goose Eye, is a K1, which was Britain's first national telephone kiosk.

One of only seven of its type to survive in the UK, the kiosk is one of 42 structures in Yorkshire this year added to the National Heritage List For England.

Haworth war memorial on Bridgehouse Lane has also been listed, one of a number of war memorials receiving the protected status.

Historic England, said the telephone kiosk is probably a Mk 235 model designed in 1922 by the Office of Engineer in Chief, General Post Office, and introduced in the same year. Production ceased in 1927 when a newer model, the Mk 236 was introduced.

The Newsholme Dean kiosk was moved from its original location and re-purposed for use in the mid-20th century as a housing for water-flow measuring equipment. This was a relatively common occurrence at the time when older telephone boxes became redundant and were re-purposed for use by other utility industries - in this case, the water industry.

The kiosk at Newsholme Dean no longer contains any equipment and is disused.