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by nailer 33 days ago
There's one near the Houses of Parliament, tourists often shoot photos there, and are surprised when the inside is filled with stickers advertising prostitutes.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/zLRxTFUXErcsrkCi7

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To be fair, that's the authentic London telephone box experience of old.
I think the actual experience was stepping into human poo, needles and overwhelming stench of piss and let's not go into why the telephone was sticky.
Those are the urban ones. The ones in the countryside were useful sometimes if you were trying to get a taxi or a lift. They often had plants growing in them.
And some were in very remote locations. The Nant y Maen phonebox in Wales springs to mind although I think it no longer has a working phone in it.
Some of them were indeed. They were very handy in pre-mobile phone days for when your car broke down, or you had to contact someone.