Our lovely red telephone boxes…..most of them not in working order but used in other various ways. This one seems to have a few flowers decorating it but some have books in them…a sort of free local book exchange.
We have a few round here & I'm so glad they are leaving them standing….the mobile phone has made them redundant!
This one is outside the main post office in Garstang where they sort the letters & parcels & the post vans are all parked up here ready for delivering our post.
Nice to see them dotted around and updated to other uses - My BIL used to work for BT and on retiring purchased a red phone box ,now standing in his garden as a mini greenhouse with a few plants in it! ( with door wide open in summer!! ) A great novelty in his garden!
They are a great design aren’t they & I know a couple in gardens……I still remember trying to ring home when on holiday in Donegal & really not knowing how to use one. Being squashed inside with a friend & coins in hand trying to work out instructions…..I can smell the inside niw!
@dkbarnett Wow all the way to NZ Delwyn, must be lovely in your garden….. telephone too, I seemed to remember the doors are quite hard to open so the grandchildren will be kept out! 🤣
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We gave a new defibrillator just down the road on a fancy stand but the uses fir the old telephone boxes are growing. Not sure what’s in ours in Great Eccleston must check but St Michaels has a library in theirs!
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They are a great design aren’t they & I know a couple in gardens……I still remember trying to ring home when on holiday in Donegal & really not knowing how to use one. Being squashed inside with a friend & coins in hand trying to work out instructions…..I can smell the inside niw!
Our payphones are nothing like this and are still in use but calls made from them are free now.
We gave a new defibrillator just down the road on a fancy stand but the uses fir the old telephone boxes are growing. Not sure what’s in ours in Great Eccleston must check but St Michaels has a library in theirs!