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KXkiosk

@kxkiosk

Urban Planner, researching the origin, devt. and retirement plans of BT's rapidly disappearing KX Payphone Kiosk types (not affiliated with BT)

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Platform for Art. A surviving pair of mk.1 #Kx200 phone booths in the Wirral and a mk.1 and mk.2 #KX200 in Chester. All sadly without phones, but still wearing their BT piper Pan livery from 1991.

Platform for Art. A surviving pair of mk.1 #Kx200 phone booths in the Wirral and a mk.1 and mk.2 #KX200 in Chester. All sadly without phones, but still wearing their BT piper Pan livery from 1991.
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Urban Survivors of the rural classic. Triangular (technically hexagonal) #KX300 BT phone kiosks in Liverpool (mk.1 flat roof panel mount and mk.2 pillar mount) and St. Anne's (mk.2 pillar mount). None featuring the door and all in need of a clean and some tlc (or handset).

Urban Survivors of the rural classic. Triangular (technically hexagonal) #KX300 BT phone kiosks in Liverpool (mk.1 flat roof panel mount and mk.2 pillar mount) and St. Anne's (mk.2 pillar mount). None featuring the door and all in need of a clean and some tlc (or handset).
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And as a treat, a BT video showing the installation of a #KX100 btarchives.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/… with thanks to all the digitisation work by archivists like James Elder and the BT Heritage team. C20 Society

And as a treat, a BT video showing the installation of a #KX100 btarchives.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/… with thanks to all the digitisation work by archivists like <a href="/jamesofputney/">James Elder</a> and the BT Heritage team. <a href="/C20Society/">C20 Society</a>
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I know its from 2022, but there is hope for saving some of the KX200 booths now we know they can host defibrillators - KXkiosk Village in Milton Keynes receives new life-saving defibrillators mkfm.com/news/local-new…

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In 2019 a short AV ’Homage to a Phonebox Icon’ aired on Channel 4 (in the UK), with poet James Massiah and director Will Dohrn paying respect to the #KX100, which they considered to comprise a British cultural icon. youtube.com/watch?v=vWWv3Q…

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More details about the attempt to list three #KX100 phoneboxes can be found here: c20society.org.uk/news/final-cal…

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NEWS // C20 has revived its famous phonebox campaign in an attempt to list three exemplar modern KX100 kiosks, as the end of the public payphone nears after more than 140 years of service. ➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/final-cal… 📷 John Maher

NEWS // C20 has revived its famous phonebox campaign in an attempt to list three exemplar modern KX100 kiosks, as the end of the public payphone nears after more than 140 years of service.

➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/final-cal…

📷 <a href="/flyingmonkphoto/">John Maher</a>
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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿In England, the kiosk at Dunsop Bridge in Lancashire sits at the geographical centre of Great Britain and its 401 associated islands, as calculated by the Ordnance Survey (Grid Ref: SD 63770 56550). The 100,000th public payphone, it was unveiled in 1992 by Sir Ranulph Fiennes

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿In England, the kiosk at Dunsop Bridge in Lancashire sits at the geographical centre of Great Britain and its 401 associated islands, as calculated by the <a href="/OrdnanceSurvey/">Ordnance Survey</a> (Grid Ref: SD 63770 56550). 

The 100,000th public payphone, it was unveiled in 1992 by Sir Ranulph Fiennes
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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 In Scotland, a contender for the country’s most remote and scenic payphone near Maaruig, on the Isle of Harris. Believed to be the only surviving example still bearing the original yellow 1985 BT livery, it is located in the last area of the UK to have a single digit phone

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 In Scotland, a contender for the country’s most remote and scenic payphone near Maaruig, on the Isle of Harris.
Believed to be the only surviving example still bearing the original yellow 1985 BT livery, it is located in the last area of the UK to have a single digit phone
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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 In Wales, an experimental KX100 model can be found at the Centre for Alternative Technology near Machynlleth. Uniquely powered by a solar panel atop the kiosk and an adjacent 18ft high wind-turbine, its bilingual signage reads Telefon / Telephone.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 In Wales, an experimental KX100 model can be found at the <a href="/centre_alt_tech/">Centre for Alternative Technology</a> near Machynlleth. Uniquely powered by a solar panel atop the kiosk and an adjacent 18ft high wind-turbine, its bilingual signage reads Telefon / Telephone.
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Raised roof of a mk. 2 KX100 in Earlestown, outside the Newton le Willows RM Delivery Office. Still has surviving 1991 Phonecard branding. Phone worked, 01925 224 385.

Raised roof of a mk. 2 KX100 in Earlestown, outside the Newton le Willows RM Delivery Office. Still has surviving 1991 Phonecard branding. Phone worked, 01925 224 385.
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My Datapacks on the KX100, KX200, KX300 and KX400 kiosk range are now available to download on Bob's British Telephones website. britishtelephones.com/kxkiosk.htm

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🚨UPDATE: We're delighted that 71 Whitney Drive in Stevenage has just been designated Grade II following C20's listing application, saving the house from a consented demolition. Designed in 1966 by Derrick Shorten as his family home, Shorten was also project architect on the

🚨UPDATE: We're delighted that 71 Whitney Drive in Stevenage has just been designated Grade II following C20's listing application, saving the house from a consented demolition.
Designed in 1966 by Derrick Shorten as his family home, Shorten was also project architect on the