Leicestershire Archives - Page 3 of 6

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

Hungarton, Leicestershire, LE7 9JR

Keyham, Leicestershire, LE7 9JP

Market Harborough, Leicesterhsire, LE16 7AU

Welham, Leicestershire, LE16 7UJ

Thorpe Langton, Leicestershire, LE16 7SG

Tur Langton, Leicestershire, LE8 0PJ

Glooston, Leicestershire, LE16 7ST

Goadby, Leicestershire, LE7 9EE

Illston on the Hill, Leicestershire, LE7 9EG

Kings Norton, Leicestershire, LE7 9BF

Oadby, Leicestershire, LE2 5QB

Littlethorpe, Leicestershire, LE19 2HX

Threddingworth, Leicestershire, LE17 6QT

Great Bowden, Leicestershire, LE16 7EU

Foxton, Leicestershire, LE16 7QY

Gumley, Leicestershire, LE16 7RU

Laughton, Leicestershire, LE17 6QE

Mowsley, Leicestershire, LE17 6NU

Shearsby, Leicestershire, LE17 6PQ

Walton, Leicestershire, LE17 5SA

Cranoe, Leicestershire, LE16 7SP

Slawston, Leicestershire, LE16 7UE

Medbourne, Leicestershire, LE16 8DT

Bringhurst, Leicestershire, LE16 8RJ

Great Easton, Leicestershire, LE16 8ST

Neville Holt, Leicestershire, LE16 8EG

Drayton, Leicestershire, LE16 8SD

Blaston, Leicestershire, LE16 8DE

Hallaton, Leicestershire, LE16 8UA

East Norton, Leicestershire, LE7 9XL

Billesdon, Leicestershire, LE7 9AJ

Houghton on the Hill, Leicestershire, LE7 9HP

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