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How much for a phone box in 1971?
Here are some papers from the Science Museum archives showing how much they paid for a Mark 6 in 1971.
A few appearances on social media
Taskmaster storyboard
For this task the contestants had to completely hide themselves in the phone box, so that nothing of them could be seen by the time the clock stopped:
Junior Good Citizens
I came across an article in an edition of the ‘BT Today’ magazine, dated August 1991. Here, children (very cool kids from their fashion sense) are being taught how to be good citizens by using the phone to call the police when they come across trouble.
Ahead of myself
I recently came across the following post on FB:
Just now, as I was bringing an old suitcase downstairs, I realised I had placed this same image front and centre on a hatbox that I had covered with postcards (c.1992):
I think I might have done this c. 1992, meaning I was getting ahead of myself. I didn’t start photographing phoneboxes until c. 1997.
Cat in a box
Just a memory
I enjoyed this FB post. It’s definately something I’ve aluded to – the idea that phone boxes remain useful as film and tv plot devices but are disappearing in the real world.
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