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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30-03-2024 00:33:57
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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
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
🏴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 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.