Where's the Public Telephone Box? Part 7

A quick return call to some earlier examples of public telephone boxes that I've spotted in old British postcards. The previous post highlighted colour cards which showcased modern cityscapes - images that mostly depicted shopping high streets or districts, and newly constructed town centres.

This time let's go back to the rustic and the traditional town or village landscapes - all which have a phone box placed somewhere within the composition.

Chard, Somerest

Croyde, Devon

Devon

Midlothian, Scotland

Great Cheverell, Wiltshire

Haworth, Yorkshire

Leicestershire

Ludlow, Shropshire

Mawnan Smith, Cornwall

Scotland

Swinton Post Office, Greater Manchester

Wiston Post Office, Sussex

Brasted, Kent

Where's the Public Telephone Box? Part 6

Following on from my previous posts - this time I'm presenting a collection of colour-only postcard images. From the 1960s, there was a new wave of issues which highlighted the nation's new shopping precincts or modernised high streets. 

Now the K8 boxes which arrived on the scene in 1968 can be spotted on these cards, accompanying the classic K2's and K6's which peppered the urban and country landscapes from the 1920s onwards...

the Whitgift Centre in Croydon

Fitzalan Square, Sheffield

Grimsby in the 1970s

the famous Harry Ramsden's fish and chips shop empire was founded in Guisley, Yorkshire in 1928

Hitchin Town Centre, North Hertfordshire

Broadmead shopping district, Bristol

Time Out magazine, October 1971 - A Guide to London's East End

A slice of East London nostalgia offered up courtesy of Time Out, when the publication was still in its grass roots, underground prime. Decades before listings for hipster galleries, pop-up venues and vintage clothing shops. This is a tour of the locality written by an East Londoner for readers who were more likely to be revelling in the then hip neighbourhoods of Ladbroke Grove, Soho or Islington. 

For those wondering what events were happening during the first week of October '71: playing the Roundhouse were Brinsley Schwartz & John Martyn, Stan Getz was appearing at Ronnie Scott's, Rory Gallagher at the Marquee Club, and the Velvet Underground at Kingston Polytechnic...

Late night film screenings included; Alfie at the Edmonton Regal, Masque of Red Death at the Dalston Odeon, and the Blob at the Brixton Classic...

Cover photo by Alex Agor