Do you know where your nearest public telephone box is?

[Loubiemoo]

Watching Tinker, Tailor, Soldier Spy atm and one of the characters goes and uses a telephone box. Got me thinking that I don’t actually know where my nearest is? I live in a village so not very big.

Last time I actually used one was probably in the early 90’s?

I don't even seem to be able to work out how to search for one.
I tried what seemed like the obvious phrase in DuckDuckGo, this is the top hit.

Google maps says 37 miles. I actually thought they were a thing of the past.

We have a traditional old red one at the end of the road, very handy for giving delivery drivers directions.
It's not in service though, the local council are thinking about putting a defib in there.

Just down the road, outside a pub. Last used it to shelter from a, sudden rainstorm when doing a pokemon go raid, about 3 years ago.

Oh, I've found one, 23 miles away. Except the street view of where it's supposed to be doesn't show one.

And a quick check of the station in the nearest town a mere 5 or 6 miles away says it has telephones.

I wouldn't trust Google, as it lists the nearest one to me as 12 miles away.

It's very sad looking

I would have to guess and say in the nearest pub which is 5 min. away ,other than that I don't know.

Yes. About 600 yards from where I am sitting now.

Just checked Google and, apparently, the nearest one is 163 miles away.

Nonsense.

Outside Farmfoods next to the local primary school, we used to have three within 5 minutes walk of my mum's house, now only that one left.

I know where three are. One is a red one in a tourist area and I think one of the others may actually contain a defibrillator rather than a phone.

No idea. Nobody uses them anymore, time to get rid of them all.

My nearest is about 1/2 a mile away outside the fish and chip shop. I've never seen anyone use it though and have no idea whether it is functional.

the one round the corner has gone, and there was another down the road, which has also gone,
another one a couple of miles away is now full of books

The nearest one that's still an actual phone box is probably about 30 miles away.

The nearest two to us are used as a massive fish tank and a book exchange (not at the same time)

I found one a mile from my house just before the first lockdown. I used it to see if it worked (it did) I and made DH take a photo of me using it.

Yes, in town 8 miles away. We did have one on our road, but they removed it because it was used by the village youth for youthly activities.

Google says the closest is 92 miles away

None in my area. There were some in the city centre but rum by a private company (black boxes with phones and wifi); I know where one was but not sure if it is still there. However I will be in that location next week so I will have to have a look!!

We have one at the little cluster of shops at the top of our road, but I have no idea if it's actually working or not.

No idea. Nobody uses them anymore, time to get rid of them all.

Not very sensible in areas with no mobile signal. Like where I am now.

There is one next to our local park, I’ve never seen anyone using it and it has a whiff of piss every time you walk past it.

The only one I can think of is outside my office. A few years ago it was in the local paper as the only people using it were drug dealers using it for business calls

All the ones in my area are now defibs.