WHITE TELEPHONE BOXES

dogduke · Post by **dogduke** » Wed 25 Nov, 2009 1:04 am

From recent memory phone boxes were red except in Hull wherethey were council owned and run.Deep in the 60 plus memory lies white phone boxes in Leeds,this has been backed up by todays top 50 on Leodis.1936 - junction of Lidget Park Road/grove.It may have been discussed on SL before but not that I can remember.When did all this change anybody ?

String o' beads · Post by **String o' beads** » Wed 25 Nov, 2009 1:09 am

linky?

Trojan · Post by **Trojan** » Wed 25 Nov, 2009 10:32 am

I remember there used to be phone boxes made of concrete, and the door window frames were red. They had a sort of pinnacle on top. Or have I just confused them will the Hull boxes?

Chrism · Post by **Chrism** » Wed 25 Nov, 2009 11:46 am

he he he. elephone kiosk... ... http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?reso ... SPLAY=FULL

Brunel · Post by **Brunel** » Wed 25 Nov, 2009 1:13 pm

Chrism wrote: he he he. elephone kiosk... ... http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?reso ... SPLAY=FULL This is one of the concrete models.

Trojan · Post by **Trojan** » Wed 25 Nov, 2009 8:01 pm

Chrism wrote: he he he. elephone kiosk... ... http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?reso ... SPLAY=FULL I remember now. There used to be one like that outside the Fountain Inn in Morley when I was a kid. In those far off days most people didn't have phones so it used to get fairly busy. Morley got STD in 1963 so in the days I'm talking about you had to insert 4 1d. peices, lift the receiver, ask for your number and when they replied press button "A" to speak, if you didn't get through you pressed button "B" to get your 4d. back.

drapesy · Post by **drapesy** » Wed 25 Nov, 2009 8:37 pm

Hull phone boxes were actually 'cream' rather than 'white' to be pedantic.

Cardiarms · Post by **Cardiarms** » Wed 25 Nov, 2009 9:05 pm

Any silver ones from the jubilee still in existance?

sundowner · Post by **sundowner** » Wed 25 Nov, 2009 9:54 pm

drapesy wrote: Hull phone boxes were actually 'cream' rather than 'white' to be pedantic. Hi drapesy Also once you put your money in you could talk for as long has you liked no call time limit.

sirjohn · Post by **sirjohn** » Wed 25 Nov, 2009 9:57 pm

did you know that area codes were originally borne out of the first 2 letters of the "director exchange" that covered the area.Leeds was 532 because Leadbury was 531Bradford was 274 because Barnstaple, Bristol and Brighton were all more important exchanges.Hull was 482, but there was no 481Take a look at your mobile keypad and see. The only difference is that UK phones didn't have O on the 6 key as the GPO thought it might confuse people when they were dialling a zero!!!