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Some really cool news for the site with yet another update. We now have Disqus as our comment platform. Very briefly, you can use your facebook, twitter, disqus... profiles to leave a comment on a post here. You're even able to attach an image. All this makes your feedback here richer. Massive thanks to all the commenters over the years (your comments haven't been lost) I hope you all continue to enjoy the site.

+442038657161, LoveFone, Red telephone box, 23 Southampton Row (next to Sicilian Avenue), Holborn, WC1B 5HA

+442038657161, LoveFone, Red telephone box, 23 Southampton Row ()next to Sicilian Avenue), Holborn, WC1B 5HA

Back in December 2017, I was walking down towards Holborn (passed the British Museum) keeping an eye out for phoneboxes (like I usually do). I was in London on a visit after being away for a few Years. Knowing the area well I knew this phonebox pretty well and used to pass it regularly.

This one phonebox stopped me in tracks. Something that's not happened lately. There was a man sitting at a desk within it! I had to stop and see what this was all about. Turned out that the phone box has been turned into a mobile repair workshop servicing the mobiles of busy people living and working in this part of central London.

Ironic that an old classical phonebox has been turned into a service station for the very thing saw its own demise.

Robert, the technician sitting therein his warm and cosy phonebox with a whole manner of tools and replacement parts, was working on a phone that very moment.

You can give him a call or perhaps more appropriately send him an email at robert@lovefone.co.uk telling him that PayPhoneBox put you in contact.

Here's more about LoveFone on their own website: https://www.lovefone.co.uk/pages/about-us.

List of All Payphone Numbers in the UK

Here we have a massive leak and a treasure trove of information for UK payphone enthusiasts. Below is an embed of the very document (can be found at this link also https://drive.google.com/file/d/1j2qnzfpEPKbMXZITfEQhFuTn5n6taac4/view?usp=sharing and is searchable using ctrl + f).

It comes after being officially denied access to the contained information in a series of emails by myself with a BT official named Paul Jordan.

It is a great honour to be in possession of this information and to be able to share it with interested parties. Especially when outlets such as Nick Mutton's http://www.ukpayphone.com/ whom charge for this (although be it with additional information).




Please send in your payphone numbers and pictures. Visit this link for more info, it's easy.

Get Involved – Make This Site Your Own!

Now you can make this site your own!

I am excited to open up this website to payphone enthusiasts worldwide. My goal is to make it easy for you to personalise this site and contribute your own payphone photos and telephone numbers directly.

As you may have noticed, we are hosted on Blogger, where we receive significant traffic. This makes it a prime location for your contributions. Blogger features an email post function, allowing you to submit a post by sending a correctly formatted email with your photo(s) attached.

How to post here yourself.

1. Compose a new email.
2. Format the subject line as follows: include the full payphone number with the international code, followed by the complete address, starting from the smallest geographical reference to the largest. For example: +442079301397, Parliament Square, Great George Street, London, SW1P 3AF, United Kingdom.
3. Repeat the subject line at the beginning of the body of the message. On a new line, provide your commentary about the significance of the payphone. Explain why it is noteworthy, such as its quirky location, availability for calls, or unique features. Include links to Google Maps locations, YouTube videos, or Dropbox/Drive links for additional files. Remember, this email will be published exactly as sent, so double-check your content and spelling. If you want credit, include your name and website address at the end.
4. Attach your photos (JPEGs) of the payphone in question, with a maximum total size of 5MB. If your attachment exceeds this limit, you will receive a failure notification, so please correct and resend.
5. Here are the rules: do not spam, format your email/post as described, and ensure the content is relevant to payphones.
6. Send the email by clicking here.
7. In a few moments, your post will go live. If there are excessive spam or errors, I may need to enable moderation before posts are published. If you need to contact me for any reason, my email address is here.

I will also email all past contributors to this site, informing them of this new feature. I hope that together with them and new contributors, we can build a vibrant payphone community for ourselves and others interested in this unique aspect of communication history.

Random Philidelphia Payphone from 2013

This one is pretty messed up. This one stands on a wall in the bad part of Philadelphia Pennsylvania. Vandalized, and without a number. However, it works perfectly fine. It's pretty cool.

Thanks to Newman for this.

Fight Club

This is a screen shot of a payphone from Fight Club shown at 28:28. Note that there is a notice that reads, "no incoming calls allowed".
Great thanks to Mountain Mike for noticing this.

Listen to this Phone Losers of America

Good day fellow payphone enthusiasts. I like many others who have an interest in payphones and ultimately telephony had at some point in our youth made the odd prank calls here and there. I still like to call payphones and other numbers to talk and engage the other side somewhat. I never make is malicious but do try to manufacture interesting reactions.

Brad (Roy or any of the other alias he goes by) seems wedged firmly in the sinister prank call genre. He garners the very best and entertaining reactions from his called subjects. He has a huge cult following. Listeners who contribute customer lists, name and number information they find and apartment complex and neighbourhood lists. Brad spoofs numbers so to appear to be calling from pizza restaurants, county/city halls, to their neighbours. It all makes for some real naughty telephone calls.

There's a massive number of episodes available going back years. He's releasing free episodes weekly (sometimes more) and it's all just a barrel of pure laughs. This is the RSS and iTunes feed you need to subscribe to http://www.phonelosers.org/subscribe/. He's also started a patroen feed for backers here https://www.patreon.com/phonelosers. There for a little as $1 a Month, you get access to his secret Hobosodes ($1 gets you every tenth episode). You can pledge more for more extra content. For my readers here I will grant you access to my $1 RSS feed (for as long as I make it available) contact me if it's not working from this page. But otherwise, I really want you to back him yourself if you like the content. For everyone else, the regular free podcasts are amazingly entertaining themselves.

Below is an embed of his best pranks playlist on YouTube. Enjoy and please leave a comment here if you're a listener.



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+442920512170, Library Phone Box, Middle Mill, Solva, Pembrokeshire, Wales, United Kingdom

Big thanks to Alan Hughes again for this quety little contribution from the United Kingdom.

It's a town library and book exchange booth. The number rings but I guess nobodys is borrowing a booth at this moment.

Alan Hughes geograph profile http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/121420.

+12122449466, Death Wish 3 Payphone, New York City, United States

Mountain Mike send this on in.

This is a screen shot of a payphone from the movie Death Wish 3, Paul Kersey (Charles Bronson) uses it early on.

He's shared this fairly familiar to me account of his past experience with payphones. "In 1982 at the age of 13, I went around on my bicycle in Santa Barbara, California with an address book and a pencil and I collected numbers to payphones for purposes of crank calling them. I had previously crank called homes until my friend's dad brought to my attention that elderly people could injure themselves while trying to get to the phone. So, I strated to crank call payphones because whoever answers knows that it isn't for him, he's only answering out of idle curiosity. In I uploaded it as a textfile to a BBS in Santa Barbara and the sysop told me that it was the most downloaded file on his BBS. The shoe was on the other foot when I was walking out of a 7-11 store and a payphone rang so I answered, and the caller screamed then hung up when I answered."

In keeping with the contribution here he shared this IMDb list of films featured payphones therein. http://www.imdb.com/search/keyword?keywords=pay-phone&sort=release_date,desc&mode=detail&page=1

There's also this superb article on the demise of payphones San Diego http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/data-watch/sdut-sdc-pay-phones-2016apr14-htmlstory.html.

Big thanks to Mountain Mike (https://www.facebook.com/spacemountainmike) for this.

+441437721345, Pembrokeshire Coast National Park, Middle Mill, Solva, Haverfordwest SA62 6XD, United Kindom

Great addition by Alan Hughes whom I found via this page http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4966878. It's one of the most overgrown one's that I have seen.