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Vivienne14 said:
There’s weren’t many K2’s installed outside London, so I doubt there are any examples left in Birmingham. Viv.
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The iconic K6 red telephone was designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of the coronation of King George V in 1935. Around 60,000 examples were installed across Britain, which is why the K6 has come to represent the red Telephone Box. Over 11,000 K6s remain, however, most are no longer in use. In Birmingham only a few remain and in fact the last working phone was disconnected only in May 2018 in Temple Row West. [from Birmingham Conservation Trust 6 July 2018]
 

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There are the boxes next to the Council House in the passage from Colmore Row to Edmund Street. Disconnected now, part of the group was used as a coffee shop a couple of years ago.
 
Hi,

I understand that the components of the K6 boxes were cast in Scotland,
at the Lion Foundry and the Carron Foundry ( of carronade fame).

Kind regards
Dave
 
Hello is zat you?:grinning:
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Where phone boxes go to die: Pictures show 'telephone box graveyards'

These amazing photos show two of the UK's 'telephone box graveyards', where the iconic British symbols are sent to get a new lease of life before being sold for thousands of pounds.
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A visual history of the British telephone box

Nick Sturgess, Head of Collections and Interpretation at Avoncroft Museum, takes us through their wonderful collection of K telephone boxes dating from the 1920s through to the 1980s The telephone box is as much an icon to Britain as the...
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horsencart said:
There was a time on most of the city center concrete bollards that were normally near to the street corner the bollards main aim was to stop Lorry's or Buses hitting the weary public if they were near to the corner (sorry if I teaching my granny to suck eggs) my point is that they (the concrete Bollards ) are as rare as rocking horse droppings in today's Brum , there are plenty of metal ones about,

The other day I saw a photo of one on Flickr and asked the person who took the photo where the Bollard was in Brum, it appears that it could? be in Edgbaston, I have scoured Google Earth but I cannot find it, at the time of typing this missive I aint had a reply to my request sooooooo does any one know where this is please, pretty please with knobs on, the master plan is when I find it I will take my box brownie and add it to my collection of stuff
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To be honest the road does look familiar but as yet I know not where
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It says Frederick Road on the road sign opposite....I looked on Street view, It's on the corner of St James Road,and it is still there,but has been painted white.
 

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It says Frederick Road on the road sign opposite....I looked on Street view, It's on the corner of St James Road,and it is still there,but has been painted white.
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I was surprised that this one was still here. I worked in that building opposite nearly 40 years ago. Stoney Lane / Alfred Road
 

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Just seen an old mileage post in stone but I was racking my brain where as we don't go anywhere now! It is on the Kenilworth road towards Coventry indicating the mileage, low on the ground. I had just been for my jab in Stoneleigh.
 
I remember the one on the left. Ours were green gaslamps. In shall we say other areas, children would swing on them with parcel twine in to the road . They have made some reproduction ones here to commemorate the watching making quarter and some of those houses they bulldozed to widen the road (which has not helped as it is a bottleneck) . The new lamps come in half and the top half bends down to be serviced.
 
This is not Birmingham, but nearby in Dimmock Road, Wolverhampton. This photo is from a Facebook page, and still there in Streetview dated August 2020. Let's hope any of these old signs remaining stay in place and are not lost

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