Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
With mobile phones taking over the UK telecommunications market, the red telephone box is fast becoming a dying breed. And this makes me quite sad. To me, the red phone booth is so iconic and I would miss it sorely if it were to completely vanish from street corners.
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on Thursday, September 2nd, 2010 at 2:41 am:
In Hull our phone boxes are whiteish cream! That’s because we have our very own phone company, not BT. They’re still disappearing though.
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on Thursday, September 2nd, 2010 at 4:31 am:
I agree, the red telephone boxes are part of the landscape in England.
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on Thursday, September 2nd, 2010 at 10:12 am:
They blend in and I think also have become part of the landscape as Pietro says.
Currently there are around 12,500 red boxes but BT has in progress a removal scheme. Around Leeds there are several that are listed Grade II, but I think these are the classic K6 design of 1935. Many of the others will just disappear, the ones that have not already gone.
That reminds me I must get some photos for my new Yorkshire Photography Library Paul
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on Friday, September 3rd, 2010 at 6:47 pm:
It’s so sad that a new breed of technology pushed these gentle telecommunication beasts away…
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