Old telephone boxes
Discussion
Have a corner of the garden in which I thought an old red telephone box would make a quirky addition.
I remember these being sold in what seemed like every landscapers yards, scrap yards and similar for a few hundred quid but a cursory look seems to suggest £3k is the going rate!!!
Is this a case demand now outstripping supply or is there a secret stash somewhere?
I remember these being sold in what seemed like every landscapers yards, scrap yards and similar for a few hundred quid but a cursory look seems to suggest £3k is the going rate!!!
Is this a case demand now outstripping supply or is there a secret stash somewhere?
I spotted a half decent one a few years back at a farm auction (or roup as they're known as up here in Aberdeenshire) and half heartedly thought about sticking a bid in if it was cheap enough.
I retreated quickly as the bids rapidly reached £1k - maybe that wasn't as ridiculous as I thought at the time!
I retreated quickly as the bids rapidly reached £1k - maybe that wasn't as ridiculous as I thought at the time!
Simpo Two said:
Time to set up a phone box replica company Steve!
If you can't buy 'em make 'em...
Jesus!!! You don't hang around!!If you can't buy 'em make 'em...
Barely 30 minutes after posting and you've already got the product to market
http://www.thephoneybox.com/
DonkeyApple said:
Simpo Two said:
Time to set up a phone box replica company Steve!
If you can't buy 'em make 'em...
Jesus!!! You don't hang around!!If you can't buy 'em make 'em...
Barely 30 minutes after posting and you've already got the product to market
http://www.thephoneybox.com/
DonkeyApple said:
Simpo Two said:
Time to set up a phone box replica company Steve!
If you can't buy 'em make 'em...
Jesus!!! You don't hang around!!If you can't buy 'em make 'em...
Barely 30 minutes after posting and you've already got the product to market
http://www.thephoneybox.com/
They don't say what it's made from but judging by the weight difference it's probably GRP.
wolfracesonic said:
sfella said:
Seriously people paying £2600 for a replica? Wow
I know, it’s crazy, I bet they don’t even stink of stale piss either…I can come round and provide the correct amount of odorous liquid. to create the correct aromatic ambience.
On a serious note, there was a place in Thirsk that stocked/sold originals and I seem to remember a yard near Blaydon stockpiled with them.
Friends have an original, had it maybe 25 years or more. Was being craned off the truck when it dropped and the back CI panel shattered, now replaced with a sheet of MS.
nuyorican said:
What was that smell?
Yes, a trace of stale piss no doubt, but something else too. Phone boxes had their very own unique smell.
Pissers and sniffers. Often had a sweat smell of glue over the acrid stale urine. Yes, a trace of stale piss no doubt, but something else too. Phone boxes had their very own unique smell.
One of the last times I used a phone box was when I'd borrowed my father's car to head in to Soho with a mate and at the end of the evening it wouldn't start (Jags!). Called the AA and while waiting we collected a load of the prossie cards from the phone box and sat in the car playing top trumps with them.
When the AA turned up we shoved them in the glove box and promptly forgot about them.
My mother found them some time later and I received a call from a rather irate father.
The last time the same mate and I went into a phone box to collect the cards it was after a long night drinking in town and heading back to another mate's flat in Hyde Park. We stashed the cards in the books he had in his living room that we were convinced were just for show.
Again, we subsequently forgot all about that only to be reminded years later when our mate recounts a tale of his future mother in law visiting and deciding to pick up and flick through his lovely collection of art books and autobiographies.
It's probably a good thing they got rid of the phone boxes.
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