+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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+441227768856 Canterbury Bus Station, St Geroges Lane, Kent

+441227768856 Canterbury Bus Station, St Geroges Lane, Kent

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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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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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+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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+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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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?

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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!