Comments on: A tale of two phone boxes http://yorkstories.co.uk/a-tale-of-two-phone-boxes/ 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 By: YorkStories http://yorkstories.co.uk/a-tale-of-two-phone-boxes/#comment-179 Sat, 19 Oct 2013 17:46:04 +0000 #comment-179 I will contact BT as you suggest. Last time I passed it was still missing its door. Thanks for the suggestion, and for letting me know of a positive outcome for another doorless phone box!

I should also mention that since I wrote the above the Marygate phone box has been cleaned of the advertising stuck firmly to its panes. I’m not sure if it was someone from the theatre/Museums Trust, or BT, but good to see.

]]> By: nick http://yorkstories.co.uk/a-tale-of-two-phone-boxes/#comment-178 Mon, 14 Oct 2013 21:15:30 +0000 #comment-178 Use it or lose it. Freephone calls to 0500,0800 and 0808 numbers generate 49p per minute for BT payphones and counts towards annual usage. Why pay up to 40p per minute to call a freephone number on a mobile.

The first kiosk will not be removed as like you say it gets used at least 2 to 3 times a week or month and I am guessing the next nearest BT street payphone is likely to be more than 400 metres away.

BT and kingston have an unenviable obligation to provide you with a phone service including a public payphone.

if you would like the door to be replaced and the kiosk repainted you could drop BT payphones an email which is what I did to one near me, they replaced the door and painted them and now they all look like nice and guess what people have actually started using them more often!

]]> By: Chunter http://yorkstories.co.uk/a-tale-of-two-phone-boxes/#comment-177 Wed, 01 May 2013 20:36:40 +0000 #comment-177 You might be interested in BT’s Adopt A Kiosk scheme: http://www.payphones.bt.com/adopt_a_kiosk/HTML/payphone/index.htm

One in Settle has become an art gallery, while others house defibrillators.

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