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Martin Rich · January 6th 05, 07:53 AM posted to uk.transport.london

On 5 Jan 2005 09:49:13 GMT, (Huge) wrote:

Martin Rich writes:

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it's possible - and I wonder if anybody reading this actually knows -
that the last A/B button boxes disappeared at around the same time as
the last pay-on-answer phones.

When we started going to the West Coast of Scotland in 1984, they still
had A/B phone boxes in places (to our astonishment). They disappeared
shortly thereafter.

My last sighting of an A/B button box in the UK was on the *North*
coast of Scotland - to similar astonishment - circa 1989: we were
definitely travelling in a car that I'd acquired in April 1988 so it
wasn't earlier than that.

Conversely I remember modern phone boxes - pre-payment, unused coins
returned, LCD displays saying how much credit was outstanding - being
easy to find in Brodick on the Isle of Arran in summer 1986, when a
trip to the West of Scotland coincided with a family hiatus that
required a few long phone calls to my parents in London

Martin