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Thursday 13 September 2018

+44208483204 O/S Peabody Trust Building, Fullham Pallace Rd, London, W6 9PH


+44208483204 O/S Peabody Trust Building, Fulham Palace Rd, London, W6 9PH



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Tuesday 11 September 2018

+441227768856 Canterbury Bus Station, St Geroges Lane, Kent


+441227768856 Canterbury Bus Station, St Geroges Lane, Kent



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Thursday 6 September 2018

There's more to our header image.


Massive thanks to Matthew Stone for telling us all about the actual location of our site's header image. Thanks to Matt we can reveal that the payphones' location is Bloor–Yonge station at 2 Bloor St E, Toronto, ON, M4W 1A8, Canada.



I was previously aware that their location was in Toronto this was thanks to a particularly rude email I received berating the then fact that we had an image of Canada heading our site when we had no actual callable payphones from the country. The situation now is different for Canada, again with thanks to our same Matt.

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+16474836060, 1200 Bloor St, W Toronto, ON, M6H 1N2, Canada


Here's a phone in the west end of the old city of Toronto. It does not have an outgoing service but people can call it with the phone number at the top of the booth (+16474836060). Calling the phone works fine but if you are restricting your phone number you'll get a message about it. There's another local blog post about it here: https://www.blogto.com/city/2018/09/phone-ringing-bloordale-toronto/.

Thanks to Matthew Stone for this neat contribution here.

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+442088979674, +442087594995, +442088974241, +442088974661, +442085647557, +442087598531, +442085648838 Departure Lounge, Terminal 3 Heathrow Airport


+442088979674, +442087594995, +442088974241, +442088974661, +442085647557, +442087598531, +442085648838
Departure Lounge, Terminal 3 Heathrow Airport



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Wednesday 5 September 2018

Phone Booth Micro Library, Lewisham Way, Lewisham Way, London SE8 4DL (no phone)




A project of the Brockley Society, this Red phone box has been turned into a book exchange - fitted with shelves and an instruction sign.  It's an example of BT's Adopt-a-Kiosk scheme which allows community interest groups to "adopt" a red phone box for the princely sum of £1, and turn it into something that benefits the community more than a phone would.  The Brockley Society apparently have three of these kiosks (at least according to this newsletter), from which they run a variety of projects.

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Tuesday 4 September 2018

+442076231210 and +4420 72207992 O/S 6 Eastcheap, London, EC3M 1AJ


Outside a Tesco Metro and - apparently - a popular spot for tourists to stand around for ages and take photos of the Walkie Talkie (*cough*, I mean, 20 Fenchurch Street).

+442076231210 and +4420 72207992 O/S 6 Eastcheap, London, EC3M 1AJ

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Monday 3 September 2018

+442087460911, InLink Kiosk, White City, London W12

+442087460911, InLink Kiosk, White City, London W12

What do you do when you have a payphone that nobody uses?  Use the telephone line to provide ultrafast broadband via wifi, of course!

BT's InLinkUK programme (the UK implementation of LinkNYC) is doing just that.

Take this (relatively unused) payphone next to White City underground station:


It used to sound something like this

And land a futuristic monolith over that phone!



Whilst they do offer UK landline and mobile phone calls, for free no less, over the Internet, they are not callable in of themselves.  Well, they are, but they just make weird tones at you (give it a go!).  

But what about the Wifi, you may ask, is it any good?  In fact, it's pretty flipping tasty!

Holy crap look at that upload speed! And the ping!

That's almost 10x the UK's average broadband download speed, and 34x the average upload speed!  Wow! Several people could perfectly happily stream 4K video simultaneously with that bandwidth.   Should you and twelve of your friends feel the need to watch Netflix whilst hanging around outside White City Underground station.

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