999 Only 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

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Great Hockham, Norfolk, IP24 1NH

Hawkshead, Cumbria, LA22 0NZ

Outgate, Cumbria, LA22 0NH

Wereham, Norfolk, PE33 9AN

Butcombe, Somerset, BS40 7US

Knole, Somerset, TA10 9JA

East Knoyle, Wiltshire, SP3 6AE

Gestingthorpe, Essex, CO9 3BB

East Bergholt, Suffolk, CO7 6TB

Rickinghall, Suffolk, IP22 1BS

Badwell Ash, Suffolk, IP31 3DQ

Barton Mills, Suffolk, IP28 6AJ

Weston, Nottinghamshire, NG23 6SS

Little Longstone, Derbyshire, DE45 1NN

Stretton, Rutland, LE15 7QZ

Barrowden, Rutland, LE15 8ED

Great Alne, Warwickshire, B49 6HQ

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