Carluddon: phone box and Santa
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Carluddon: phone box and Santa
Image: © Chris Downer Taken: 29 Dec 2014
The K8 telephone box will be a familiar design to many but it fell into obscurity fairly quickly in the early 1990s when most of them were replaced by modern boxes. There are reckoned to be fewer than a dozen surviving today in operation. I am almost sure that this one was never in use here, but is an ornament owned by the garage on whose forecourt it stands. Certainly there has not been a public phone marked on recent maps. The garage obviously makes something of an exhibition of the box, judging by the photo taken six months ago: Image Now, the interior character has been removed and instead we have Santa Claus climbing a ladder to nowhere, strapped to the top of the box.
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Image Location
Latitude
50.365043
Longitude
-4.780745