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British Telephone Boxes in the Republic
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06-01-2012 3:20pm#1As a fan, and former collector, of old British Telephone Boxes I am constantly surprised at their continued appearance in different parts of the Republic. The latest to come to my attention is located at Johnnie Fox's Pub in the Dublin mountains - see below. This unfortunate example is displayed in a totally unauthentic colour scheme which makes the whole point of its display very puzzling. Why go to the trouble of acquiring an iconic British Telephone Box and then paint it up like a freak show? Why not paint over all the enamel signs etc. on display and alter them too?
Anyway, a number of these K6 boxes were imported over the years by film companies, as well as private individuals, and I would be grateful to hear of any other sightings. Thanks in advance.
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jonniebgood1 wrote: »The interest is in both terms of heritage and design. I know that in Architecture the design by Giles Gilbert Scott is studied. It based quite stringently on the golden mean principles which is timeless (The same principles were used in ancient Rome and Greece). I think that K2 design were the most famous.
With regard to heritage I guess they are alot more attractive than the type of aluminium kiosks that replaced them. It could be worth seeing how the design came to be used in Ireland as the classic design as per Judgement days OP came post independence. Were these boxes used in Ireland or are examples all imported. If so what is the story on the Irish Kiosks?
From an earlier thread: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=64771479
Sadly the Republic missed out on the attractive cast iron K2 and K6 boxes due to Independence and any south of the border have been privately imported.
The quite attractive, but less serviceable, concrete and timber variety illustrated below were the Irish equivalent to the K6. This pic shows an Irish box in the poor livery that they carried in their declining years. They proved hard to keep clean and are associated by most people with the chronic telephone system that we had to put up with well into the 1980s.
As for why anybody would want to collect them......:D0 -
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The history of the pillar post box…
The man credited with inventing the first pillar post box is the novelist Anthony Trollope - who was a postal surveyor in Ireland in the mid 1800s.
In Britain some 198 rare examples of early pillar-type letter boxes are preserved as part of the national heritage.
Three years ago English Heritage and the Royal Mail celebrated the 150th anniversary of Trollope’s invention and outlined a scheme to protect the 115,000 letter boxes as classic icons of British design.
The green Irish post boxes are in fact more historically authentic than the current red ones in Britain.
All British boxes were originally green and only went red in 1874 after problems with visibility.
There was a change in World War II when the tops of some boxes in Britain were painted with yellowish-green detection paint that changed colour in the event of a gas attack.
The plinths of some boxes were also painted white to aid movement on unlit wartime streets.
In Ireland over a fifth of about 4,675 post boxes still in use throughout the country are pre-1922.0 -
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With regards to phoneboxes. I came across this one today on National Library's Flicker stream:
From the Eucharistic congress in 1932
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/6734992549/in/photostream/0 -
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Judgement Day wrote: »Fantastic pic - I've never seen anything that old relating to the P+T boxes before.
It's a great stream they have over 700 photos on it and seem to upload a new one everyday. Fair number of railway ones that you would be interested, such as one of demolition of Clones railway station, Last train in Harcourt street station etc.
They are on "The Commons" which basically means the photos are released with "no known restrictions".
Anyways back to P&T it does look like it's a completely wooden P⁊T box as oppose to later concrete ones. So perhaps ye are looking at the "origin of the species" there.
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Hah I see the photo today is from 1929 you can see a phone box on the left (man sitting on roof) which isn't like the P⁊T boxes (as shown in 1932 photo) -- my guess is it looks like the postbox from Foxrock above (K1)
Here's a link to the full size image: (2477 x 1890)
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7148/6753980363_dd9743f19c_o.jpg0 -
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