+498959998704, Street Payphone, Bayer Straße, München (Munich), Germany

Typical street payphone here in the heart of Munich. Off to the right in the background you can see the central train station and during the evenings this pavement (side-walk) gets really very busy. Give it a call around then as it does ring with a fair volume.

+442077344784, China Town, Gerrad Street, ADJ Telephone Exchange, W1D 6JH

Shot in the heart of London's Chinatown. Was taken in early morning and you can see the restaurants receiving their deliveries, along with the Chinese community members coming by to collect their Chinese language newspapers. This box has stood for time even though the once famous London Chinese phone boxes (with Chinese design) have been removed as they were deemed offensive to Chinese people. I've managed to obtain a picture of the old Chinese phone booth from this exact same location. You can see it below. Also the building this box stands up to, is the local telephone exchange. One last thing, this is not the original china town. The original china town was located in the Limehouse area of East London, where they came as part of a global sailing community (I will try to get a payphone of that area featured here sometime soon).

Sad Sight

This picture by @hotincleveland over at Twitter, shows how much we all value these once essential telecommunication spaces. Is it a sign of the times?

Snow Covered Payphone, Yuzawa, Japan

Thanks to: @SnowJapan on Twitter for this. 'Nighta' at the famous phone box in Yuzawa. I've seen many pictures of payphones involving snow, but none quite like this. Would be even better were we able to call it.

+442088033495 & +442088033525, Loud Ikea Payphones, North London, UK

In the pictures it can we very sparse in terms of people passing them. But give it till the weekend, this place will be heaving with people. The are positioned right after the main entrance. The telephone number is for the lower down payphone.

New Contact Email Address

I would like to announce that the contact email address for this site has changed. Please use sfoswald+payphone@gmail.com for all enquiries and submissions. Please save it in your contacts as wells as your smartphones, just so that if you see that interesting payphone shot you can easily take a photo and email it straight on over.

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Wikileaks have WMDs say US

@henrywarren over on Twitter saw this on a fairly standard British phone box around the Barbican in last night. I'm not anti American, but this picture is something to do with current affairs and features a phone box. Maybe on the next one we can get the payphone's telephone number too.

Our New URL

Congratulations to ourselves. We have a new URL http://www.payphonebox.com/ ! The old URL will still work, it is forwarding traffic to the new one. The old one (.org.uk) restrained us somewhat to the UK browsing community. Whereas this new .com address will allow us to be presented on equal footing in searches around the world. The site after all is a global topic and is itself designed to be as widely seen as possible.

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+4732147601, Rural Norwegian Red Phone Box, Krødern, Krødsherad, 3535, Norway

First of all, I would like to say a big thanks to our fellow phone box enthusiast John Arnsten, who runs his own website (site translated to English)dedicated to the humble Norwegian Payphone. He has kindly allowed this phone booth to be featured on our site here. He has even made a video of the actual payphone, giving us all a real good feel for it and it's surroundings. On his website he logs the statues a repair of the phoneboxes he visits. For this one he states (rough translation to English): "Pretty and good kiosk, but painting and site preparation is svæt bad. Neighbor that has a kiosk on their property seems maintenance is bad! Dørpumpe destroyed! Not Light" Thanks again John. And for those that liked this addition please stay tuned for more in the near future from Norway.


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Google Maps Listings of London Payphones

Just found out by entering London Payphones into google maps that it gave me these listings. It might have been carried out by BT themselves at the boxes seem to be the WiFi enabled ones only. Particularly good thing here is that them have the exact address and the payphones callable telephone numbers. You can even click to select to see them in Google Streetview! Nice one google.


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