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I think a lot of the K6's now have listed status and can't be removed or swopped for the modern crappy shower cubicles.

@derekdwc... not a silly question at all. They sit on and are in contact with a cast iron concrete filled base. A pretty good earth. The kiosk being mostly metal - apart from the teak door (when not stolen) would also act as a partial Faraday cage. If I was caught out in a storm with lightning close by, I'd make a dive into a phone box pronto - assuming I could find one. Don't touch the frame though!

Of course, you could buy a K6 and bung it in the garden!

http://www.x2connect.com/shop/BT__Red_Phone_Boxes_.php

Bromborough Pool

why are the doors always missing?

i wouldn't mind restoring one of those K6 boxes and putting an old phone in it.

A lot of doors are stolen (see a prev.post) as they have a teak frame. Also, I think BT remove some doors to use on listed boxes elsewhere.

Is there still one by Green Lane?

yes its still there

Teehay lane, Bebington, Outside the Smorgasbord. http://goo.gl/maps/0aXkZ

worth a fortune, especially restored.

There were two in that Lower Castle Street opposite the Queen Victoria Monument. One was huge and was some sort of prototype. Gone now.

There is one inside Woodside Ferry Terminal !

Hoylake is full of them, nearly everyone is still red. Even one at the junction of Birkenhead Road and Heron Road, Meols

The designer/architect also built the Liverpool Anglican cathedral- there is a telephone box in there.'His smallest design within his largest'.

Not quite: when he was appointed as the architect of the cathedral in 1903 at the tender age of twenty two, Giles Gilbert Scott admitted that so far his only design to be constructed had been a pipe-rack.

There is one in Wallasey Village by Sheridans (The Black Horse) with its door missing - I think it's still there anyway