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Mike Mitchell… the one at the bottom of our house could be relied on for a bit of pocket money. Press button A then button B twice and a penny or two would tinkle into the pan. Or was it press button B then button A….
Stuart Moir… if you pressed A you would loose anything left by the previous user who didn’t get connected and forgot to press B to getting their money back
Richard Burks… A regular feature prior to mobile phones!
Joanna Marie Mod… We had one outside our house just adjacent….for many years….moved there 1966…then they made them more modern (2pcalls)…I loved the old black ones like this…x
Colin Bell… That’s the cleanest phone box I’ve ever seen!
Bernard Goffredo… Colin, they had their own distinctive smell
Colin Bell… Didn’t they just Bernie…i remember so well!
Carol Acott… yes…pee
Jim Peckham… I remember them
Gerry Fortsch… I remember putting my hand over the mouthpiece and when the operator told me to put the coins in the slot I would rattle the coins on the side of the box and after being told caller place your coins in the slot a couple of times I would be connected. I must have saved myself a couple of bob or maybe 20 pence.
Mike Waghorne… Designed by a one time resident of Hollis Bank Farm Ninfield, Sir Giles Gilbert-Scott.
Mick O’Dowd… Obviously a model as it still has the hand-piece connected!
Linda Boiling… I was a GPO Telephonist when I left school, the best job ever, sadly made redundant when the exchange went automatic. The phone box at the end of my road was 3481X
Richard Burks… Linda, I expect you know already but many of the old exchanges still exist but remain empty
Nikki Bruce… The ones I remember stunk of piss and cigarettes.