Phone Box to go
The BT phone box opposite St Mary’s Park on Bury New Road is to be removed shortly.
I found out last night, only be walking past it and seeing the sign inside. I don’t know if people living closer have been told or not, because this is the first I’ve heard of it.
I know that BT have a duty to provide phone boxes, and in these days of mobiles I suspect that they all lose money hand over fist. I can’t imagine who would use them regularly now, except for members of the Soprano organised crime family, and people conducting extra-marital affairs…
It’s still not nice to see local ones go though, not just because it’s another local facility going, but because people may genuinely need them in emergencies, especially people who mightn’t have mobiles like the elderly. So I will be glad to lobby BT on residents’ behalf if they are against this move. There are alternative boxes in the Village a few hundred yards away.
Rick
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