Leicestershire 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: Leicestershire

Protected: Hinckley, Leicestershire

Protected: Hinckley, Leicestershire

Mountsorrel, Leicsestershire, LE12 7DE

Abbey Pumping Station, Leicestershire, LE4 5PX

Cold Overton, Leicestershire, LE15 7QB

Saddington, Leicestershire, LE8 0RN

Hinckley, Leicestershire, LE10 3ED

Moira, Leicestershire, DE12 6EL

Foxton Locks, Leicestershire, LE16 7RA

Stathern, Leicestershire, LE14 4HW

Wartnaby, Leicestershire, LE14 3HZ

Osgathorpe, Leicestershire, LE12 9TA

Newton Burgoland, Leicestershire, LE67 2SE

Sutton in the Elms, Leicestershire, LE9

Protected: Enderby, Leicestershire

Protected: Loughborough, Leicestershire

Shackerstone Station, Leicestershire, CV13 6NW

Protected: Markfield, Leicestershire

Protected: Newbold Verdon, Leicestershire

Leicester Station, Leicestershire, LE2 0QB

Barkby, Leicestershire, LE7 3QG

Gaddesby, Leicestershire, LE7 4WG

Little Dalby, Leicestershire, LE14 2UL

Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, LE13 1AE

Frisby on the Wreake, Leicestershire, LE14 2NU

Queniborough, Leicestershire, LE7 3DA

Ratcliffe on the Wreake, Leicestershire, LE7 4SN

Cossington, Leicestershire, LE7 4UP

Sileby, Leicestershire, LE12 7RX

Seagrave, Leicestershire, LE12 7LT

Burton on the Wolds, Leicestershire, LE12 5AG

Barlestone, Leicestershire, CV13 0EE

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