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Originally Posted by PaulR
I went to the tram museum at Crich in Derbyshire a few years ago and they had what they reckoned to be the last working A-B type phone. It was housed in a beautifully preserved telephone box complete with mirror, directory holding unit and that chromium plated thing which looked like it was intended to hold spare change, but was usually used as an ash tray.
Paul
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Sadly the Crich A/B box is out of use as the 'on-site' telephone system has been updated from the old Strowger system. But it is still intact I'm told.
There is another A/B box in an early kiosk - I recently restored the interior to what it would have been when the villagers were thrown out in 1943. See
http://www.tynehamopc.org.uk/telephone_kiosk.html You can only visit the kiosk at the weekend as it is in the middle of the Army's Lulworth live firing gun range! See
http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/Ab...orthRanges.htm for details of access times.