Red Phone Boxes

[Simba]

oops.

[Socceroo]

oops.

Aye

[cheesemonster]

something about chipmunks?

[Josef]

You got it. You have to be quick on HG .

[viceroy]

something about chipmunks? ::):

Could somebody put me out of my misery and enlighten me please, or am I just being singularly obtuse? Have I missed something? Is it maybe even a generation thing?

[Socceroo]

something about chipmunks? ::):

Could somebody put me out of my misery and enlighten me please, or am I just being singularly obtuse? Have I missed something? Is it maybe even a generation thing?

Simba said that she saw a Red Phone Box in Bute with two Chip Monks in it.

[viceroy]

So she did. I remember it now

[Fossil]

something about chipmunks? ::):

Could somebody put me out of my misery and enlighten me please, or am I just being singularly obtuse? Have I missed something? Is it maybe even a generation thing?

Simba said that she saw a Red Phone Box in Bute with two Chip Monks in it. ::):

I thought it was two monks eating chips? can Simba confirm?

Fossil

[duck]

The world really is small!!! We've just managed to find a K6 here in rural Normandy and picked it up for a snip. As you can see it's in pretty ropey condition but that's the next year taken care of in restoring it. The glass window panels had been replaced with plastic ones ( as they did in the 80's I think it was ) but then painted a very un-original red! I don't know if the wood on the door is the original teak but it will probably need replacing.
I thought it was fate when I saw that it had been made at the Lion Foundry in Kirkintilloch but even more amazing , though, is that the panel inside says it was situated at 69 Netherplace Road, Newton Mearns !!! Number was 041 639 2607X.
Does anyone know Netherplace Road? I wonder if it was outside a shop - or a house?

[Alex Glass]

Welcome back Duxter. Where have you been?

Missed you loads. Happy to see you have returned to HG

Don't know if you managed to see the photos of St Robert's RC PS I posted on the School Buildings topic in Projects!

[duck]

Hey Alex - great to hear from you, made my day to see your message!
Bit worried that you didnn't get my thanks for the st roberts pics- the mother who has to be obeyed loved them and I did send a thank you message!

[Alex Glass]

Hi Duxter

Great to hear she liked the photos. If she would like me to get some of the interior that wont be a problem. I know the Head Teacher

As you may know the school will close and be demolished when the new school is finished sometime next year so if there is anything she would like me to get for her I would be happy to see what I can do.

Hopefully you will be able to find more time to keep us here occupied with interesting topics.

[Fraz13]

Erskine Hospital

[Mori]

Is this the death of the phone box?



There's graffiti sprayed all over it. It smells of something unpleasant. It takes courage to put the handset to the ear. Repeated attempts to make a call prove fruitless. And unlike the super-duper city-centre phone boxes, this one has no e-mail, SMS or text facility. Neither does it have a door.

Like 222 other BT public phone boxes in Scotland, no calls at all have been made in the past year from this forlorn-looking kiosk at Millbrae Road, Chryston, situated beside the A80 trunk road between Glasgow and Stirling, despite the fact that's in the middle of a pleasant neighbourhood of quarter villas and sits between two schools.

As a result of its lack of use, the phone box is under threat of removal by BT, which says it is uneconomic to keep on paying more than £1000 each year to maintain it because it brings in zero financial return.

[dougie79]

They live on!