Alternative Transport?
The numbers of 'traditional' red telephone boxes in the UK are rapidly diminishing. Of many of those left in their original placement position, few actually have a working telephone inside. The increasing ownership of mobile phones has a part to play in this, but they do get used as temporary toilets, ashtrays or occasionally as windproof overnight shelters.
Many though, have been dumped, although there is now a lucrative market for those seeking designer kitch/design classics* (delete as appropriate) to put in their gardens as a landscape feature....I'm not sure what Sir Giles Gilbert Scott (who designed them in 1924) would make of that!
As I left the main entrance/exit of the railway station in Bath yesterday, these five K6 boxes (all in working order) stood bright and proud in the Spring sunshine.
They look like telephone boxes of course, but I know that so many, in one place, near a station in a popular historical city, must obviously serve another purpose.
;-)
Alternative Transport?
The numbers of 'traditional' red telephone boxes in the UK are rapidly diminishing. Of many of those left in their original placement position, few actually have a working telephone inside. The increasing ownership of mobile phones has a part to play in this, but they do get used as temporary toilets, ashtrays or occasionally as windproof overnight shelters.
Many though, have been dumped, although there is now a lucrative market for those seeking designer kitch/design classics* (delete as appropriate) to put in their gardens as a landscape feature....I'm not sure what Sir Giles Gilbert Scott (who designed them in 1924) would make of that!
As I left the main entrance/exit of the railway station in Bath yesterday, these five K6 boxes (all in working order) stood bright and proud in the Spring sunshine.
They look like telephone boxes of course, but I know that so many, in one place, near a station in a popular historical city, must obviously serve another purpose.
;-)