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Instagram photographer Simon Weller encountered a rarity in the village of Onchan, on the Isle of Man: A fully functional K8 phone box with a working phone. Only 54 K8s are known to exist in the UK.]]> https://www.payphone-project.com/rare-k8-phone-box-onchan-isle-of-man-photo-by-simon-weller.html/feed 0 https://www.payphone-project.com/working_phone_box_ilfracombe_in_the_county_of_devon.html https://www.payphone-project.com/working_phone_box_ilfracombe_in_the_county_of_devon.html#respond Tue, 17 Sep 2013 05:59:44 +0000 http://payphonenews.com/wp/2013/09/working_phone_box_ilfracombe_in_the_county_of_devon.html

Paul Voller writes with news of an actual working phone box in the south west of England. Mr. Voller notes that there was "No mobile reception" in the area, "so we enjoyed a decent holiday." ]]> https://www.payphone-project.com/working_phone_box_ilfracombe_in_the_county_of_devon.html/feed 0 https://www.payphone-project.com/worlds-most-famous-phone-booth-claims-world-record.html Mon, 02 Apr 2007 08:51:08 +0000 http://payphonenews.com/wp/2007/04/worlds-most-famous-phone-booth-claims-world-record.html

Scotland’s Pennan phone box, declared by a local tourism board as “the most famous phone booth in the world,” was the scene of record breaking achievement. 16 gymnasts filled the famous phone box, breaking the booth-stuffing record set in 2003 in Edinburgh, where 12 adults and 2 children succeeded on their second attempt to fill…]]>