Grey Archives - The K6 Project

Hello and welcome to the K6 project, a personal adventure to travel the length and breadth of the UK finding old red telephone boxes, the k6 used to be everywhere before mobile telephones became the prevalent form of telecommunication.

Finding working red phone boxes are a challenge. As BT battles to control its costs the boxes are quickly disappearing from public sight.

This British icon has become history as public phone boxes disappear, but there is a future as they get 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

Category: Grey

Kirkstone, Cumbria, LA22 9LQ

Bath, Somerset, BA1 2LW

Rogart, Pittentrail, Highland, IV28 3XA

Kilmersdon, Somerset, BA3 5SZ

Blaenwaun, Carmarthenshire, SA34 0JD

Pinkney, Wiltshire, SN16 0NZ

Forest Coal Pit, Monmouthshire, NP7 7LS

Meols Station, Merseyside, CH47 8XA

Protected: Stafford, Staffordshire

Milton Keynes Museum, Buckinghamshire, MK12 5EJ (K6 booth 1)

Talacre (Private box 2), Flintshire, CH8 9RD

National Payphone Museum, K6 Grey, Worcestershire, B60 4JR

Glutton Bridge, Derbyshire, SK17 0EN

Courteenhall, Northamptonshire, NN7 2QE

Protected: Redhall Bank, Warwickshire

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Phone Boxes Visited by Month / Year