http://yorkstories.co.uk/1930s-classic-marygate-phone-box/ A resident's record of York and its changes Wed, 05 Mar 2025 17:45:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 http://yorkstories.co.uk/1930s-classic-marygate-phone-box/#comment-300 Sun, 18 Nov 2012 16:42:14 +0000 #comment-300 Very poignant photo for me as someone who used this box most term-time Sundays for several years in the 1970s to call my parents (reversed charge) whilst a boarder over the road at Bootham School. One could call from a payphone in the school but it was often in use and, like much of the communal life, not very private. Sorry to see it sliding into disrepair due to its obsolescence and new technolgy.
Despite arriving 600 years after the medieval tower they do seem to belong together incongruous as such a juxtaposition of ancient and modern really ought to be. Is our modern street furniture a patch on the K6? Perhaps the next casualty of progress in communications might be the good old red postbox, not to mention the postie him/herself.

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