Red Phone Boxes

[PATRICA1]

Someone please take a photy of the one inside the old spillers factory in barrhead if ever a red box fell on hard times its this one,nae windaes,nae red paint,but when it was working we used to phone in from it and say ahm no well I`ll be in the morra,and then go up tae the dovecot for a few more beers,Ah was younger then,Stricky.

[Alex Glass]

Next time I am out that way with my camera I will get a photos Ian.

Here are a couple from Glencoe

[tobester]

Edinburgh Castle

[Josef]

Edinburgh, is it? I'll give you Edinburgh, m'lad.

[peejay1312]

hi there patricia1 and alex ill try and get a few photos of the old box on my way home from work as i drive by it

[duck]

On a recent trip home and a day trip to Bute - seem to keep them in good nick over there. The last one looks a bit drunken though!!!

[mrsam]

I think they are getting rid of a lot of phone boxes, as the growth of mobiles kind of makes them redundant.

Anyone know where i can pick one up cheap ( a proper red one that is) - would make a cracking greenhouse I reckon!

BTW- would I be right in thinking that the red phone boxes were made at the Lion Foundary in Kirkintilloch, which closed around the time that they were phased out?

I've had a wee hobby for the last 20 years of checking the plate at the bottom of the red phone box (on the outside of the window-less panel). I've only ever seen Saracen, Carron and Lion Foundries. However, sometimes the box is right up against a wall and its difficult to see the plate or the box has been refurbished and the plate removed.

Being a Kirkie boy myself, I like to find the Lion Foundry ones.
I'm old enough to remember the foundry belching out thick, yellow acrid smoke as late as 1977. The most exotic I've seen to date is the Troodos Mountains in Cyprus have a green painted one.

There still seems to be loads of these phone boxes down here in England. But they are all from one of those three foundries.

2 from Edinburgh Royal Mile side by side both different K6's






1 from Fife (silly but I forgot to work out where )


More info

http://www.redphonebox.info/history.htm

A caravan site by me also has an old AA box as an enterance howf/telephone kiosk!! (must get picture)

Not strictly related but Kinloch house on rum has an old payphone thing



Mr Sam

[floweredpig]

The horrible red one with one big window, as seen in Gregory's Girl (where Carol gets changed before going for chips with Gregory) is I think, a K8.
Doc

I saw some green wans either end of the Erskine Bridge on the way back fae Loch Lomond the other day, and pointed out they were "K8's I think" much to the bemusement of my car companions...
I think I maybe spending too much time on here ! ::):

The K8 may look horrible but is now very rare with only 12 known working examples and none in Scotland that are known of.The 20th Century society started a campaign to find them all several years ago.

Unless anyone knows different?

Details can be found here http://www.c20society.org.uk/docs/campaigns/k8.html

[Alex Glass]

Callander



Loch Katrine

[floweredpig]

Any K8s' though?

[suthy snail]

"Would still love somebody in the Mearns to let me know about the box's original place at 69 Netherplace Road
duck "
Telephone box in Netherplace Road was in the middle of council housing scheme in newton Mearns

[floweredpig]

"Would still love somebody in the Mearns to let me know about the box's original place at 69 Netherplace Road
duck "
Telephone box in Netherplace Road was in the middle of council housing scheme in newton Mearns

It may be a council house but at least its a Mearns council house.

[Lynn_x]

Theres still a red phone box on

Easterton avenue - Busby

[floweredpig]

K8s now being listed http://www.c20society.org.uk/docs/press ... sting.html

[yoker brian]

There is a K8 at the Dalzell Plate Mill in Motherwell not in GPO Red, but BSC Blue. I will get a quick snap of it later and post it when I get home