2014

SX0255 : Carluddon: phone box and Santa

taken 9 years ago, near to Penwithick, Cornwall, England

Carluddon: phone box and Santa
Carluddon: phone box and Santa
The K8 telephone box will be a familiar design to many but it fell into obscurity fairly quickly in the early 1990s when most of them were replaced by modern boxes. There are reckoned to be fewer than a dozen surviving today in operation.

I am almost sure that this one was never in use here, but is an ornament owned by the garage on whose forecourt it stands. Certainly there has not been a public phone marked on recent maps.

The garage obviously makes something of an exhibition of the box, judging by the photo taken six months ago: SX0255 : A391 at Carluddan Garage. Now, the interior character has been removed and instead we have Santa Claus climbing a ladder to nowhere, strapped to the top of the box.

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Geographical Context: Village, Rural settlement Communications Primary Subject: Telephone Box other tags: K8 Telephone Box Phone Box Santa Claus Father Christmas Click a tag, to view other nearby images.
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SX0255, 31 images   (more nearby 🔍)
Photographer
Chris Downer   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Monday, 29 December, 2014   (more nearby)
Submitted
Monday, 5 January, 2015
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SX 0233 5538 [10m precision]
WGS84: 50:21.9026N 4:46.8447W
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SX 0233 5537
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