Red Phone Boxes

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Atarah

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Hi, I am on a "mission" - with the help of Owd Bert (who took this photo for me) I want to record all red phones boxes left in the Accrington area. Do you know of any near you please?
Here is the first one we spotted - the corner of Church Street and Holme Street
 

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the red box is no longer on the corner of willows lane richmond road as been replaced with the new type kiosk
 
Red Phone boxes

Thanks for that info. Keith. Oh dear, its beginning to look as though Accrington only has one red phone box and one Victorian post box left. No clock! No Grammar school! No Sacred Heart Church! No Rists! Oh dear! We are in a bad way!
Atarah
 
Bets

Hi Tealeaf, will keep my ears to the ground, but .. on a more positive note, the Karrimor building at the bottom of Avenue Parade has actually got scaffolding around it now, and work is commencing! They are saving the building - its gonna be transformed into shops and offices! Honestly! I do not lie! :)
 
And yet...

..The Karrimor building is not really one of the more attractive buildings in Accy; still, it's nice to see it being put to good use. I'm a little bit puzzled about the shops, though - surely we have enough empty shells in the market development without adding more....unless, of course, it's going to be a "all for a quid" emporium.

I suspect this development will have the emphasis on residential, with possibly a few shops on the ground floor (A Witherspoons, perhaps).......It's just a shame that nothing could have neen done with the Sacred H. - that would have made an excellent small/start-up business centre.

As regards the phone boxes - well, it's the same everywhere. The only place you see them now are within urban conservation areas ( I think there is a quota)or national parks or on Royal/State procession routes down here.
 
another red box I am surprised no one has sent this one in Location rishton again at the corner of holt street and hermitage street might be another smelly one
 
Spotted on blackburn road accrington 6 old red telephone boxes on the back of a wagon going towards blackburn looked like going for scrap
 
Not scrap

...but probably going for clean up & then conversation into trendy shower cubacles for that new cottage housing development up in the Lake District.
 
Red phone boxes

Haha Tealeaf, and thanks for that Keith. Wonder where they were going to? Pity we will never know eh?
Probably pinched from Accy anyway! :(
 
Well Atarah, there are two red phone boxes that I know of within a few miles of where I live here in Florida. There is one outside a "British Pub" (which also boasts a London double decker bus) about 12 miles away and also one outside a nightclub about 15 miles away. So it looks as if we have more of them here than you have in Accrington! Amazing or what?
 
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