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Hello and welcome to the K6 project, a personal adventure to travel the length and breadth of the UK finding old red telephone boxes, they used to be everywhere before mobile telephones became the prevalent form of telecommunication.

As boxes are decommissioned from public phone usage the risk of removal of the kiosk is very likely unless they are adopted and repurposed.

I want to find out what those new purposes are, who adopted the boxes and what stories lay behind its usage (both previously and today)

I have been visiting local telephone boxes and have found may varying usages from defibrillator site, recycling centres, local book exchanges or local village guide booths.

In rural Britain the usage of the boxes appear ‘local centric’ and its these that I wish to explore in greater detail, both here online, as a database and social media for a more personal look at the box its use and location.

The K6 Project

Casting Foundry: MacFarlane Foundry

Nazeing, Essex, EN9 2DA

Foxearth, Essex, CO10 7JE

Baythorpe End, Essex, CO9 4AF

Protected: Wethersfield, Essex

Great Bardfield, Essex, CM7 4RF

Henham, Essex, CM22 6AH

Farnham Green, Essex, CM23 1HN

Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S3 8RY

Middleton, Suffolk, IP17 3NJ

Darsham, Suffolk, IP17 3PU

Wingfield, Suffolk, IP21 5RA

Cookley, Suffolk, IP19 0LW

Walpole, Suffolk, IP19 9AS

Hoxne, Suffolk, IP21 5AR

Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP33 1RG

Clachan Mòr, Isle of Tiree, PA77 6XA

Portnahaven, Islay, PA47 7SQ

Bruichladdich, Islay, PA49 7UR

Cabrach, Isle of Jura, PA60 7XX

Keills, Islay, PA46 7RQ

Ford, Argyll and Bute, PA31 8RH

Strachur, Argyll and Bute, PA27 8DG

Craigmore Pier, Isle of Bute, PA20 9LE

Port Bannatyne, Isle of Bute, PA20 0PP

Drybridge, North Ayrshire, KA11 5BY

Tynron, Dumfries and Galloway, DG3 4JZ

Gelston, Dumfries and Galloway, DG7 1SH

Claygate, Dumfries and Galloway, DG14 0SB

Burwell, Cambridgeshire, CB25 0HL

Felixstowe Ferry, Suffolk, IP11 9RZ

Felixstowe, Suffolk, IP11 7ET

Kilham, East Riding, YO25 4SH

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