English Village has old phone booth returned. Could it happen here?

Run_to_da_hills

I never liked those horrible Eircom glass phone booths that replaced the P&T ones. With the event of the mobile these things are a dying breed anyway. It would still be nice to see some of them returned in some villages across the country.

A Village in the UK has clubbed together a had one of the old ones returned, the first time such a thing has happened in 30 years since they were removed. They recon it could now become a trend across the country.



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1234852/Villagers-win-landmark-battle-forcing-BT-restore-red-telephone-box-removed-25-years-ago.html

VinnyTGM

They might look good in some rural village's but not everywhere.

Mike 1972

I never liked those horrible Eircom glass phone booths that replaced the P&T ones.

Especially the fact that the walls/door didnt go al the way down to the ground and you got all the traffic noise/one end of the conversation in the next booth.

Then they started leaving the doors off altogether and eventually bringing in California Style phones (bloody stupid in the Irish climate) so that everyone who hadnt got a mobile already went out and bought one

Run_to_da_hills

Mike 1972 wrote: »

Then they started leaving the doors off altogether and eventually bringing in California Style phones (bloody stupid in the Irish climate) so that everyone who hadnt got a mobile already went out and bought one

That could have been done intentional

A car crashed into two of them on the Drumbiggle Rd in Ennis a few years ago, they replaced it with one. I believe it costs more to maintain them than what they make out of them now. They would be better off replacing the phones with mobile phone top up points.

Fuzzy Clam

There's one of those old boxes in a small village that I dove though earlier this year. I think in Roscommon. It has a preservation notice on it and planning permission has to applied for if it needs to be painted or a window replaced.

mikedublin

There used to be a nice old style phone box on Dawson Street in Dublin (just up from Trailfinders) but I don't know if its still there.

Mygsy

There's one in Castlebridge, Wexford but just as an attraction...doesn't actually have a phone! Looks nice though!

BluesBerry

It would be nice to see some back
I remember in the 80's there was a number you rang to test the phone line for telecom eireann engineers you rang and it would ring that phone back I think it was automated no one was on the other end and we got hold of it as kids so much fun watching people running to answer it , that was in the days when the a lot of people used the public phone as their own private phone hanging around it waiting for their calls

poisonated

BluesBerry wrote: »

that was in the days when the a lot of people used the public phone as their own private phone hanging around it waiting for their calls

haha if that is true that is so funny.
I was on the bus last week going from Dublin to Galway and I passed someone's garden which had one of those phone booths in it,it was extremely weird but it was cool