News on Phone Boxes

Are Phone Boxes History?

As you may be aware, there is a final push by BT to divorce themselves from the responsibility of the maintenance and upkeep of the kiosks that have been part of our heritage for almost the last 100 years, due to modern economics.

We are very keen that the remaining kiosks do not disappear into obscurity and are therefore acquired by people or organisations that really care and moreover share our desire to preserve these unmistakable icons of national english heritage.

As these kiosks have not been manufactured for 40 years and are now rapidly reducing in numbers, these kiosks will only increase in value and therefore create an ideal investment opportunity.

As a result, we are now able to make available a number of kiosks to enterprises, organisations or even individuals that can take considerable financial advantage of being able to purchase a limited number of kiosks in multiple quantities.


Mobiles kill off more phone boxes
Thousands of loss-making telephone boxes are to face the axe as mobile phone use soars in the UK, British Telecom has announced.

Up to one in five phone boxes could be removed, particularly in rural areas.

But BT said it would keep many rural pay phones if there were no others within reasonable walking distance.

The company has said its policy was "driven by a complete culture change in communications" which had seen a huge rise in mobile phone ownership.

Residents in Edenbridge, Kent, where mobile phone reception is said to be "unreliable", told BBC Radio 4's programme the impact would be most felt by vulnerable people such as the elderly.

Local MP Sir John Stanley, who is fighting the removal of payphones in the area, said BT's stance was a nationwide issue.