Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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#1
Just for the record on here, anyone have any idea how many of these are left in Dover? And, are they still being replaced by those obnoxious, un-characteristic perspex models? England slowly being destroyed, see them
while you can.
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Terry Nunn
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#2
Oh Colin don't. You'll only get Graham Wanstall started!
Terry
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#3
you got in before me terry about graham, incidentally is the one still there at the junction of castle hill and victoria park?
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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#4
Yes indeed there is Howard but the residents in Victoria Park had to fight long and hard to keep it as I remember, i think Im remembering that correctly, but Ed will know more about that one. I think we did have Ed's picture of it on display at one time, he may still have it about his person.
Sadly Colin the whole world, with the exception of yours truly, seems to have a mobile phone these days, so the takings from the callboxes would be low so a limited future seems to be on the cards.
Guest 693- Registered: 12 Nov 2009
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#5
Is there any hope of the latest technology being a mobile phone box?
True friends stab you in the front.
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
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#6
if this phone box is british,why has it got made in france stamped on it in the bottom left hand corner.
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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#7
Sorry Brian, is that an official stamp, or are you joking mate?
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#8
the sad thing about the demise of the phone box is that when you go abroad travel agents advertising our country always have a picture of big ben, a routemaster bus, red pillar box and a traditonal phone box in their window.
people come here expecting to see them.
plus of course they had a double use late at night when caught short coming home from the pub.
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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#9
Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#10
Luckily you won't get Mr Wanstall near a computer and the internet, there is unsavoury stuff all over it and it is a bad thing !!
Been nice knowing you :)
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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#11
Paul, I`ve heard this name Mr Wanstall mentioned on here a few times, who is he?
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#12
graham wanstall writes in the local papers letters pages on a variety of subjects, always well researched.
paul
thanks for explaining that, i do believe that paulb tried to get him onboard a while back.
Guest 673- Registered: 16 Jun 2008
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#13
This is the little gatehouse at Victoria Park with the red telephone box. I am told that the gatehouse is owned by a German lady who rents it out to another lady, that the rooms are tiny and there is a spiral staircase in the turret. Not aware of a campaign by residents to save the telephone box, believe that was all Graham Wanstall's good work. As Paul says, phone boxes were doomed with the advent of the mobile phone. Perhaps a mechanism could be devised to enable local residents to club together to sponsor their neighbourhood red telephone box.
Previous thread on this subject at:
http://www.doverforum.com/letters/viewtopic.php?id=1852Guest 666- Registered: 25 Mar 2008
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#14
Anyone notice the one in the 'Hotel' near the dock entrance, just to the left of the roundabout, must be quite a challenge making a call through all the vegetation growing through it!
I think most have been shipped abroad by now as conversation pieces, do remember a pic of one used as a shower cubicle in the USof A.
Oh Boy!, That'll be the day.........
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#15
i have often wondered how that got there buddy.
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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#16
#6 Had a look round it this morning, couldn`t see made in France on it Brian. Am I missing something here?
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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#17
colin,just pulling ones leg.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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#18
footnote to post 17,which left hand corner did you look at.here is a clue there are 4 of them along with 4 right hand corners,its all done to where you are standing of course.
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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#19
Alot more than four left and right corner`s Brian. Think about it. Nice little mathematical puzzle for you mate.
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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#20
colin,it depends how you want to work it.
