From redundancy to new employment
This is one of Salford's smallest listed buildings (but not the smallest), and one of two (the other is in Worsley).
The first public telephone boxes were installed in London in the 1920's, but it took until the 1930's for these to be rolled out beyond the capital. The one here is a K6, designed by Giles Gilbert Scott and of about 1936. It is sad and neglected, and has no telephone.
But the plan is for it to be resited, repainted and re-buffed up, to be an installation for Salford University students to display their new art-works within. It's a fitting retirement plan for something which in the 1930's was cutting edge - the iphone 6 of its day !
I can recall the smell of a telephone box from distant years when I used them last. I am unwittingly having a 2 day nostalgia fest.
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