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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Nearly Sane on January 01, 2017, 10:53:25 AM

Title: The second life of phone boxes
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 01, 2017, 10:53:25 AM

At least these ones are unlikely to smell of urine

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-36148287
Title: Re: The second life of phone boxes
Post by: Walter on January 01, 2017, 11:32:38 AM
At least these ones are unlikely to smell of urine

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-36148287
what a great story NS, A good example of human ingenuity , the repurposing of a great British icon in the free world!
Title: Re: The second life of phone boxes
Post by: Harrowby Hall on January 02, 2017, 10:08:00 AM
I came across a red British telephone box - being used as a public telephone box - in a shopping arcade in Kurashiki, in Japan.
Title: Re: The second life of phone boxes
Post by: splashscuba on January 02, 2017, 01:27:55 PM
At least these ones are unlikely to smell of urine

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-36148287
Yep. Defib in our local box as well
Title: Re: The second life of phone boxes
Post by: Walter on January 02, 2017, 02:08:31 PM
I came across a red British telephone box - being used as a public telephone box - in a shopping arcade in Kurashiki, in Japan.
that's amazing, fancy going to Japan ;)
Title: Re: The second life of phone boxes
Post by: Anchorman on January 02, 2017, 02:12:22 PM
S' never gonna replace the TARDIS.
Title: Re: The second life of phone boxes
Post by: Aruntraveller on January 03, 2017, 09:03:03 AM
Last summer I came across a telephone box tucked away in Boppard in Germany.

Many tourists taking photos of this strangely located telephone box. Not sure it was being used for anything other than attracting tourists!
Title: Re: The second life of phone boxes
Post by: Rhiannon on January 27, 2017, 08:54:00 PM
The old red phone box in our village is used as a sort of library where books can be left and swapped. It always has at least a couple of copies of Fifty Shades in it.
Title: Re: The second life of phone boxes
Post by: Gordon on January 27, 2017, 09:03:26 PM
I haven't seen one for ages: or perhaps I just don't notice them any more since flat battery apart I'd never use one

Even then, since I'd tend to contact others via their mobiles, I'd never remember their numbers since they're all stored on my mobile, so a handy phone box would be useless.
Title: Re: The second life of phone boxes
Post by: Shaker on January 27, 2017, 09:42:58 PM
The old red phone box in our village is used as a sort of library where books can be left and swapped. It always has at least a couple of copies of Fifty Shades in it.
There's a beautiful village near me (well, there would be: it's Leicestershire after all) where the old red phone box has also been turned into a compact and bijou but surprisingly well stocked village library.

And a house just round the corner from me has one in the front garden.
Title: Re: The second life of phone boxes
Post by: Harrowby Hall on January 28, 2017, 09:39:56 AM
S' never gonna replace the TARDIS.

Thinking about the TARDIS. I believe that in most BBC premises there is a former police phone box in the entrance area. I saw one at the BBC in The Mailbox, in Birmingham. I was led to believe that it is part of an executive rapid transport system.  ::)
Title: Re: The second life of phone boxes
Post by: Rhiannon on January 28, 2017, 09:41:59 AM
I saw a Tardis somewhere in London years and years ago. Forgotten it totally until now.