Where are all the UK red telephone kiosks?

phyzix5761

Nice! Would be great if this had a map view as well.

nailer

There's one near the Houses of Parliament, tourists often shoot photos there, and are surprised when the inside is filled with stickers advertising prostitutes. https://maps.app.goo.gl/zLRxTFUXErcsrkCi7

alexfoo

Someone pushed them all over: https://maps.app.goo.gl/rxcGDAc8Dv924zkv8 (It's art: https://secretldn.com/telephone-box-installation-kingston/ )

davnicwil

I was just thinking how it'd be great if there were newer, modern things like this that had sprung up in response to newer technologies. I guess it's one downside of dematerialisation with digital tech - I can't think of a single thing that would make sense. Everyone's got their own virtual portal to all the new technologies that come out, there's not much to look at out in the world. Maybe as more progress happens in physical 'world of atoms' type things we'll see a bit of this come back.

davedevelopment

The ones in Hull are all cream coloured: https://www.thek6project.co.uk/2023/07/13/hull-university-ea... The crowns are also ground off I think

Kaibeezy

If curious why I posted this: - someone told me about a fish—n-chip buffet in Arbroath, Scotland - I told my team, one of them asked “just fish?” - I replied “batter fried pizza too” - one of them made the inevitable comment about defibrillators - I pointed out many of these red kiosks have been repurposed to hold defibrillators and went looking for images

joezydeco

The box in Meols, Merseyside has been turned into a small museum honoring the band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark. The box was their makeshift booking office in the early days and the box's number (6323003) was used in the song "Red Frame White Light" "To this day, it is still likely the highest-charting song entirely about a public phone box." https://www.thek6project.co.uk/2022/08/30/meols-merseyside-c... https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/omd-telephone-box

roebk

I love seeing the occasional phone box in a quaint village which has been converted into a super compact library. It reminds me that community spirit and trust are alive.

HarHarVeryFunny

I grew up with these things, but they look so weird now, like a Tardis. I remember having fun as a kid placing a reverse charge call from one phone booth to another across the street. Apparently the operator didn't have a way of knowing the number you were asking to make a call to was a phone booth, so your buddy across the street answers the operators call and graciously agrees to accept the reverse charge call (which is then free - no need to put any money in).

dbbk

Everywhere?

Self-Perfection

Hopefully this database is integrated with OpenStreetMap. OSM has extensive tagging scheme for phone booths: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dtelephone

iamalizard

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aussieguy1234

Here in Australia, public payphones, instead of being removed were all made free. They provide a lifeline to women fleeing domestic abuse, who need to contact services without their phone being tracked. Also to homeless and other vulnerable people who may not have access to a phone. Statistics show lots of calls to emergency services, centrelink (Australia's welfare agency) etc...

trebligdivad

Wasn't there a short period where they changed the colour? I'm thinking it was a beige thing - in the 80s???

cosmobiosis

I know a Kiosk seller in California. It's always pretty separate from telephony system. Not integrated at all.

eszed

Browsing these made me unreasonably nostalgic.