Gunmakers Company, Commercial Road, City of London (inoperable)

This phonebox is situated just outside the Gunmakers Company, Proof House one of the livery companies of the City of London The Gunmakers company is one of the few livery companies which retains a link to the trade for which it was originally chartered - and to this day is responsible for testing the safety of gun barrels for all guns in the UK.

The premises for the Proof House was moved due to an explosion which blew part of the City (of London) Wall out - so the question is, which came first, the proof house or the phonebox?

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

New Contributor, @naxxfish

Payphonebox.com has a new contributor!


I'm @naxxfish (or simply Fish), and an aficionado and somewhat obsessive documenter of public telephones.


It all started many moons ago, when a group of people in London called Bob's Basement gathered on a semi-regular basis. One of the numerous geeky projects that were undertaken was a project called PayphoneDB - a database of payphones, including telephone numbers and pictures, collected by members of the group.


Sadly, this project evaporated with the group. But I had been diligently collecting the details of many phone boxes around the UK and the world in preparation for its resurrection. Sadly, that resurrection never came - some of the data found its way into OpenStreetMap (where the quality was sufficiently high), but the rest was lost to the ages.

Yet the habit of documenting payphones was formed ...

With no outlet, I opened the enigmatic (perhaps less so now) twitter account, @UKPayphones to post my photographs and details to the public domain.  Which is how I came across this project (or rather, this project came across me!) - and how I now come to be posting yet more phone box details to you, dear reader!

As well as the raw details about phone boxes, I hope to share a bit more detail about the context of the kiosks.  I'm, as an aspiring photographer, I am also working on a photo zine, entitled telephone: a catalogue of obsolescence - more details of which you are sure to hear soon!

+442077023424 Mansell Street, City of London, London E1 8BQ

+442072476476, White Church Lane, London, E1 7QR, United Kingdom

+442072476476, White Church Lane, London, E1 7QR, United Kingdom

Now its easier to leave a comment here.

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).




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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.