Phone Box Vandalized

Introduction

The photograph on this page of Phone Box Vandalized by Gary Rogers 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

Phone Box Vandalized

Image: © Gary Rogers Taken: 9 Sep 2008

This is the phone box outside the post office on Upholland Road, Billinge. I never thought of these as a site of geographical interest but this one was vandalised at the weekend (you can see the bottom five panes of glass at the front have been broken and are lying on the floor inside). The owners of the post office want the box removed because they say they have seen this box used for drugs drop off, during the day and night and used as a public convenience. Whilst some local residents say that it's part of the character and heritage of the village and want to keep it. Then there's the technological argument - are these outdated now and do we really need them anymore? Anyway this little incident is forever recorded in the Geograph archive. It will be interesting to see what becomes of these iconic cultural symbols over the next ten or twenty years.

Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0