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Where are all the UK red telephone kiosks?

30 pointsby Kaibeezytoday at 6:04 PM14 commentsview on HN

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Kaibeezytoday at 7:39 PM

If curious why I posted this:

  - someone told me about a fish—n-chip buffet in Arbroath, Scotland
  - I told my team, one of them asked “just fish?”
  - I replied “batter fried pizza too”
  - one of them made the inevitable comment about defibrillators
  - I pointed out many of these red kiosks have been repurposed to hold defibrillators and went looking for images
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davnicwiltoday at 7:16 PM

I was just thinking how it'd be great if there were newer, modern things like this that had sprung up in response to newer technologies.

I guess it's one downside of dematerialisation with digital tech - I can't think of a single thing that would make sense. Everyone's got their own virtual portal to all the new technologies that come out, there's not much to look at out in the world.

Maybe as more progress happens in physical 'world of atoms' type things we'll see a bit of this come back.

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davedevelopmenttoday at 7:23 PM

The ones in Hull are all cream coloured: https://www.thek6project.co.uk/2023/07/13/hull-university-ea...

The crowns are also ground off I think

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phyzix5761today at 6:56 PM

Nice! Would be great if this had a map view as well.

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nailertoday at 7:02 PM

There's one near the Houses of Parliament, tourists often shoot photos there, and are surprised when the inside is filled with stickers advertising prostitutes.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/zLRxTFUXErcsrkCi7

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