City of Leeds Police Telephone Box / Call Point

liits · Post by **liits** » Wed 11 Apr, 2012 9:27 am

BLAKEY wrote: - the one in Belle Vue Road was actaully a full size Police box rather than a call point..... Like this....

BLAKEY · Post by **BLAKEY** » Wed 11 Apr, 2012 8:13 pm

[quotenick="liits"] BLAKEY wrote: - the one in Belle Vue Road was actaully a full size Police box rather than a call point..... Like this....Almost identical liits - here is the picture of the BVR one.Oh dear - I'd forgotten I can't do attachments for some reason I don't understand - sorry. If anyone can help I'll e Mail the picture to them with gratitude.

liits · Post by **liits** » Wed 11 Apr, 2012 8:28 pm

BLAKEY wrote: Oh dear - I'd forgotten I can't do attachments for some reason I don't understand - sorry. If anyone can help I'll e Mail the picture to them with gratitude. I' love to see it if you can't attach it. My email is in my profile.

BLAKEY · Post by **BLAKEY** » Wed 11 Apr, 2012 9:46 pm

liits wrote: I' love to see it if you can't attach it. My email is in my profile. Many thanks liits - picture on its way - or I suppose already there via electronic wizardry.

uncle mick · Post by **uncle mick** » Thu 12 Apr, 2012 2:52 am

BLAKEY wrote: There used to be one of a different variety - it was built into the curved wall on the corner of Belle Vue Road and Woodsley Road.I think the replacement stones can still be seen. Is this where it used to be ?http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?reso ... SPLAY=FULL

BLAKEY · Post by **BLAKEY** » Thu 12 Apr, 2012 8:55 am

uncle mick wrote: BLAKEY wrote: There used to be one of a different variety - it was built into the curved wall on the corner of Belle Vue Road and Woodsley Road.I think the replacement stones can still be seen. Is this where it used to be ?http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?reso ... SPLAY=FULL Spot on uncle mick - and you can just see the "patching" stonework in the Leodis picture.

johnnyg · Post by **johnnyg** » Sat 04 Aug, 2012 1:37 am

I don't know any of call posts or police call boxes still in existence in Leeds. (The Wetherby one is a replica.) There is however an example of both a call post and a call box at Bishopthorpe, the training centre of the West Yorkshire Police in Wakefield.

johnnyg · Post by **johnnyg** » Sat 04 Aug, 2012 1:49 am

Here is the call box from Bishopthorpe.

simong · Post by **simong** » Sat 04 Aug, 2012 10:51 am

jim wrote: We visited Edinburgh last September, and they seem to have kept a number of police boxes, all locked up and obviously disused for many years. Some of the Edinburgh boxes have been converted into kiosks and some are listed so can't be moved. At least one has been stolen in the last ten years.

ArmleyLass47 · Post by **ArmleyLass47** » Sat 04 Aug, 2012 11:19 am

There used to be a big blue Police box on Armley Road facing the bottom of Branch Road. It was outside a Ladies waiting room. I think they were made instead of using a whistle to gain attention, or could be wrong. I have seen when younger the Police sitting in the Ladies waiting room if it was raining. Laugh. Wouldnt dare have said what you doing in there to them in those days. Wish I had taken a photo of it but didnt have a camera, how lacking in handy things were we in those days?