There’s A Phone Box Outside The Willow Pond



Anar these Pallioners & Millfielders are behind the times compared to us Northsiders, but you’d have thought they’d have moved to mobiles by now?
About 15 years ago ,I’m sure there was a phone box in Mountain Daisy downstairs men’s toilet ,and I’m not kidding.
 
BT are (or were) legally obliged to provide a certain number of public phone boxes.

I did start a thread on here asking if you knew where the nearest one was last year. Mine was about 200 yards away, but the next time I walked past it about a week later it had been removed!
 
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BT had targets to keep phone boxes operational and found, in true Pareto analysis style, that 20 percent of their Phone boxes were responsible for 80 percent of reported failures.

Answer - remove the vandalised boxes - targets met!
 
What was the nearest to me (barnard grove hpool), passed on train back from match years back n ambulances all around it. A lad had been thrown off a motorbike n went through it! Certain he died. Its stood in middle of nowhere the poor fecker.
 
I remember a guy from the North side of the water who specialised in breaking into the phones to nick the cash, this was pre mobile, used to go all over the North-East, used a small car jack to somehow pop the cash box.
 
There’s a field full of em on the west side of the London-Brighton train line.
The rich and stupid down here were having em converted into shower cubicles. Too small.
 

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