Ashby de la Launde: payphone in Church Avenue
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Ashby de la Launde: payphone in Church Avenue by Chris Downer as part of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
There are currently over 7.5m images from over 14,400 individuals and you can help contribute to the project by visiting https://www.geograph.org.uk
Ashby de la Launde: payphone in Church Avenue
Image: © Chris Downer Taken: 11 Oct 2015
A rare sight nowadays, not that I ever recall them being all that common. This payphone is a Booth 7A - thanks to information from someone in the know about phone boxes, who also added: "also known as an Oakham due to its resemblance to a tin of old oak ham." When the red kiosks were being replaced by the familiar square boxes, these yellow phones were superseded by the KX410, seen for example here: Image
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
Image Location
Latitude
53.08163
Longitude
-0.426434