There are still a number of the old K6 telephone boxes in Sheffield city centre, a lot of them clustered around the town hall area. This one stands on Leopold Street and has seen better days. I’ve photographed it on quite a few occasions, and it’s featured in the blog on at least one previous occasion.
There are still numerous K6 phone boxes around the country, but the ones out of town centres rarely contain telephones anymore, now tending to be used to house mini-libraries, or sometimes defibrillators.
Something good that happened today…
I had a call with a customer that I had been a little nervous about (this is not unusual, I often feel nerves before such calls, despite never having had one go badly), but it went well, which is always a relief. People I’ve been on customer calls with have always fed back on how confident and composed I am, but my own inner imposter-syndrome tends to try and tell me otherwise.
Olympus OM-10 & G.Zuiko 35mm f/2.8 on Ilford HP5+. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 @ 20° 9mins.
Taken on 25 October 2024
Steel City Snapper photography 
I love these red English phone booths! Too bad we are losing some simpler technology. The last phone booth I saw was at an abandoned Mesa Verde National Park conference center and that was years ago. On the other hand, my old 10 lb. analog rotary phone by Ericson still rings when I plug it in and dials out, too. This is a very classical photo, too – love the clock in the tower in the distance!
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The move to mobile telephony has put a whole set on nails in the payphones’ coffin, I fear. There’s a regulatory requirement in the UK that states that phoneboxes cannot be removed if they meet certain criteria (such as distance from another public payphone, their amount of use each year being over a set number of calls, if they are required for emergency use, or if they are being used by people to ring helplines). Based on that, I guess there will still be at least some payphones in place for some time to come (in the UK at least), but their numbers have certainly dwindled.
The clock is in the tower of Sheffield Town Hall. If you look closely you can just make out the figure of Vulcan atop it.
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