Telephone booth Locationless, Locationless, Locationless
By
Pesky! on 25-Aug-10. Waypoint GA2538
Cache Details
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| Type: | Locationless |
| Container: | Other |
| Proximity: | 161m |
Description
find a Red Phone booth and log it.
RED TELEPHONE BOX's
Many of us may remember these. I was probably too young to have used them much but I remember them being on many streets and locations around.
your task if you should choose to accept it is to locate a RED TELEPHONE BOX and log its locaion.
SO many of them may no longer be functional, and may not be being used as phone boxes any longer, but it would still be fun to see how many still exsist.
so get youself in a photo of the Box either changeing into your superhero costume, dissapearing as Agent 86 Maxwell smart did, or fling through time and space... no wait that was a police box. I think Bill and ted used a Phone box to travel on thier excelent adventure, and there have been a couple of horror/suspence movies made about telephone booths, but Im mainly intersted in the RED ones.
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the location i have posted is for one i spied in Pro Harts gallery on a recent visit to Broken HIll.
so that one is taken.
I know of at least 2 others , possibly 3
Hints
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Logs
After a birthday for Kinkell just up the road we were heading toward Melbourne and spotted this un-red telehpone booth beside the road. It's now used to house the crossing flags for the school crossing nearby.
Longreach
S23 26.650 E144 16.460
Found this telephone box a few days ago in the foyer of the Australian Stockman's Hall of Fame in Longreach.
Don't think it's had a hit yet.
Thanks.
S23 26.650 E144 16.460
Found this telephone box a few days ago in the foyer of the Australian Stockman's Hall of Fame in Longreach.
Don't think it's had a hit yet.
Thanks.
I drive from Nanango to Toowoomba ( 124Klm) on a regular basis and drive past a certain establishment twice on each journey at Crows Nest Qld. Then on this trip I notice something different on the footpath so I had to stop and take a look. There was an old time street corner fire alarm notification pole and this old RED telephone box. It was complete with old fashioned baker light black phone and still had the old greenish tinge shelf and glass back drop.
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Here's a Tassie one that doesn't seem to have come up before. It was in the yard at an accommodation/cafe stop called Killynought or Seabreeze (both names seemed to be there - I was a bit confused to which it was called) near Boat Harbour. The views were lovely, the food delicious, and coffee great! Thanks for the cache as well.
GCA 595 - 6343. Snapped this one while caching in Arrowtown New Zealand. Saw a few of these driving around NZ over the last couple of years so while here this time for NZ Mega 2012 I managed to grab this one.
TFTC !!
TFTC !!
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This red telephone booth was located in somebody's front garden in the suburb of Rokeby, near Hobart.
I was very excited to find this red telephone box at Aileron just north of Alice Springs and it is still in use - amazing! 
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Spotted this red telephone box while out caching in Darwin recently - it is in need of some TLC
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Found this one ages ago and forgot to log it.
Its in the Canberra Carotel Motel & Caravan Park.
Its in the Canberra Carotel Motel & Caravan Park.
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We found this telephone booth in a museum at Kadina, South Australia. We really enjoyed wandering through this display of yesteryear.
To my amazement not only did the entry building to The Buried Village have a red letterbox on offer, but also this red phone booth! The village is located south west of Rotorua and was submerged during a volcanic eruption in June 1886. The phone booth is obviously a later addition! TFTC.
Came accross this one at Old Tailem Bend Town, an interesting place to visit.
I was DNFing a cache close by - For TIMe and noticed this red phone box. Man it's been years since I've seen one. It's working too. I took the photo, but didn't have a spare $5 to make a call...haha Cool 
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This old red phone box is being used as a gallery outside a secondhand bookstore off Salamanca Place in Hobart.
Driving through Ararat heading home and as we drove past of the caravan parks, we caught sight of this one up near reception. A quick u-turn and we managed to grab the photo. Even better, it hasn't been found til now.
Thanks a fun locationless, even if it has taken a while to find one.
Thanks a fun locationless, even if it has taken a while to find one.
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Sadly these were damaged in the Christchurch earthquakes and are currently behind barriers.
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Spotted this one at someone's gate while driving in the south island of New Zealand-not sure if it still works.
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These two telephone booths were seen as we drove along William St, Westbury. The premises is the local equivalent of Steptoe and Son. Both telephones booths have been renovated (ie, given a coat of paint)and are for sale, the pointed top one is $2700, the round topped one $2600. Needless to say we left them insitu.
Hadn't seen one of these for years-near Chiltern,Victoria(I think).
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Found this old box sometime ago when looking for a hidden cache nearby
Found this excellent specimen on Olympiad Parade, near the corner of Balmoral Street, in Leura, NSW -- in the Blue Mountains.
In fact, this particular old telephone booth -- which appears to be part of someone's rather rustic collection in a cluttered front yard -- is very near where the recent Leura bushfires started. The area behind the house -- now undergoing some kind of major refurbishment -- is completely burned.
The telephone booth is not working, but is located right on the street, on the very edge of private property. Initially you might think it was still doing its original job.
Great to see this Locationless back in action. It's a good one. Love these old red phone booths . . .
In fact, this particular old telephone booth -- which appears to be part of someone's rather rustic collection in a cluttered front yard -- is very near where the recent Leura bushfires started. The area behind the house -- now undergoing some kind of major refurbishment -- is completely burned.
The telephone booth is not working, but is located right on the street, on the very edge of private property. Initially you might think it was still doing its original job.
Great to see this Locationless back in action. It's a good one. Love these old red phone booths . . .
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Glad to read that this Locationless has been unachived.
Will soon re-submit my Katoomba red photo booth!
Will soon re-submit my Katoomba red photo booth!
Our second old red phone box in Tassie - this one still in use in Stanley near the top of the state.
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This is too good a locationless to archive - can I adopt it?
Found this one in the Beaconsfield Mine Museum in Tasmania - it works! You can call it from a nearby old style phone.
Found this one in the Beaconsfield Mine Museum in Tasmania - it works! You can call it from a nearby old style phone.
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Not many more about in Tassie...lucky a cache was placed beside it.
TFTC..Cheers.
TFTC..Cheers.
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Spotted this one a while back while on holiday in Montville.
Although this booth at HOlbrook was logged a few days ago, it was while I was away, and I believed it to be "unfound" at the time of snapping the pic - however, I note the previous finders log does not include a photo of the great phone that is on the booth - a phone which is typically up to the standard of public phones elsewhere.
We found this one at one of the petrol stations in Holbrook NSW. Holbrook is about an hour north of Albury and going by the map here, there seems to be a few of these around this area.
Saw this Telephone Booth whilst on the way to Tamborine caching
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This phone box is no longer in service, it is found at the Zig Zag Bottom Point Station, just past the station building. It does however tend to move around a bit! it used to be at the front of the building and various other spots around it.
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Wool Bay's First P-T Booth 1949, once at the Wool Bay General Store (now a private residence), is now located further south along the Esplanade, in the grounds of the Wool Bay Holiday Units.
found this cache down the road from our house red phone box is 20meters or so off GZ on private property first locationless
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Passing through Grafton NSW amongst the historic buildings on the river bank I spotted a friendly Tardis. With no time lord in sight, I jumed in for a photo.
TFTC
TFTC
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This one is at the back of the museum in Tumut not far from the GC cache "Tree-haeuser". Not in the best condition but it's the type I remember from childhood with the roof that reminds me of a Sydney red rattler.
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Was driving around some dirt roads trying to find my way back to a main road then I spotted this box so slammed on the brakes and stopped took the picture and the coordinates then continued on my way.
Spotted this it a museum in Cohuna, right alongside was a petrol bowser. Got 2 for 1 on locationless, how good was that.
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This telphone booth is outside The Fox and Hounds Hotel on the Tasman Peninsula at Port Arthur Tasmania. I actually do the breakfast cooking here and have done so for the past few years and it has taken me this long to log this cache. Happy New Year, TFTC and cheers; OldSaint.
saw this Telephone Booth whilst passing through Clunes
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Spotted the od red phonebox in the Kalamunda History Village WA
found 2 of these in the Beenleigh Historical Village today
it is a marvellous place with a huge range of vintage business and domestic buildings
it is a marvellous place with a huge range of vintage business and domestic buildings
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This one sits on private property in a front garden of suburban Spotswood.
Looks in good nick too!!
I've driven past it on numerous occassions and keep meaning to stop and take a photo but never got around to it.
Well today was the day.
Looks in good nick too!!
I've driven past it on numerous occassions and keep meaning to stop and take a photo but never got around to it.
Well today was the day.
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Have admired this one in a suburban front yard in Thornleigh for many years on my walks. Was thinking of creating a locationless for this when I was beaten to it. A different style of roof to the one I found in Walhalla, Vic.
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Was down the street today in our home town (Yackandandah)and noticed this phonebox. I never new it existed until today.
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Spotted this phone box while driving through Chiltern. It amazing as we drive through Chiltern regularly and have never noticed it until today!
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One from over the ditch. This one is in use at Little River. Sighted and photographed during a holiday there.
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WanderingAus wandered by on day 164 of our annual Climatic Refugee trip, heading West towards home and exploring around Blanchetown near Lock One on the mighty Murray River, when I spotted this once red but now very faded telephone booth in the yard of a house near the river.
*Recommended* *Overall Experience: 2*
T4TH Pesky!
Keith
*Recommended* *Overall Experience: 2*
T4TH Pesky!
Keith
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Spotted this one while doing maintenance on a cache at Etomogah Pub, TableTop.
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WanderingAus wandered by on day 158 of our annual Climatic Refugee trip, heading into Bankstown Sports Club for a last slap-up dinner before heading West the next day, and finally got around to taking a photo of one of the red phone boxes in the club. Not sure how many there are, but it's at least half a dozen, all of them with working telephones inside.
*Recommended* *Overall Experience: 2*
T4TH Pesky!
Keith
*Recommended* *Overall Experience: 2*
T4TH Pesky!
Keith
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While visiting the North Sydney Markets with my wife, I did a double take, reached for my mobile and snapped this photo before the mirage disappeared. 
A Red phone box with a working phone in a public area. How rare is that? Thanks for taking me back in time. Much better than the new ones you see these days. TFTC
A Red phone box with a working phone in a public area. How rare is that? Thanks for taking me back in time. Much better than the new ones you see these days. TFTC
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Ahh these take me back .Press A then press B and you could even get a free dial a prayer. Its what you did when you were a bored 10 year old
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Found this one in a likely spot, Walhalla, Vic. Population reportedly in single figures. Time has stood still here so a red phone booth is appropriate. Phone works - GPSr is inside the booth. Looking at Google Earth the coords seem out but is that the fact that with the village being in a deep valley the EPE is about 10m or the fact that GE is often way out?
Good to see a few of these around.
Good to see a few of these around.
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There is a pristine Red Phone Box at the Axel Stenross Maritime Museum in Port Lincoln.
As we only log each cache once, we'll leave the find for someone else.
As we only log each cache once, we'll leave the find for someone else.
I found this old red phone box in someone's backyard. I am not sure exactly what they are using it for and as it was in their yard I wasn't game to go in for a look, but I do know it is not a phonebox anymore.
The photo was taken from public land behind the house so anyone can wander past and see it.
The photo was taken from public land behind the house so anyone can wander past and see it.
This one is located in the student cafeteria of Newstead College in Launceston Tasmania. It was presented to Alanvale College in March 1988 by the SRC after being restored by A.R. Herbert. The booth was relocated to this site after a new college was built to replace the existing campus.
I spotted this red phone box sitting inside the Telegraph Station in Beechworth. There is even a telephone still stuck on the back wall.
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This phone booth is privately owned and situated near Coutts Crossing NSW - discovered whilst visiting the family and permission was granted for the piccie. It can be seen from the road going past the property. TFTC.
this one is in albany ,at the botom of York st and is still working.
In the lovely old township of Ross stand these 2 red phone booths.
Fun cache, thanks Pesky
Fun cache, thanks Pesky
Great minds! I was about to publish this locationless about three weeks ago but didn't get around to it! Saved me the trouble. I've got one in mind near me in someone's front yard.
We knew of two old red phone boxes near Moonta, South Australia, so headed off to log one of them today. This one is located next to the sweets shop opposite the Wheal Moonta mining museum.
No time to change into my superhero costume, but the weather today is so good it's the first time I've worn short pants since the beginning of winter!
Thanks Pesky!
Edit 1st September: We had to travel past this spot today and cast our eyes toward the phone booth. We were surprised to see that it's been removed! Could Pesky be stealing them??!!
No time to change into my superhero costume, but the weather today is so good it's the first time I've worn short pants since the beginning of winter!
Thanks Pesky!
Edit 1st September: We had to travel past this spot today and cast our eyes toward the phone booth. We were surprised to see that it's been removed! Could Pesky be stealing them??!!
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This red telephone box has caught our eye recently because it's such a shame that it's slowly rotting in someone's yard. If I had one of these things I'd be taking much better care of it!
Knew where there was a red phone booth - so took a photo.
On Martinsville Road near Watagan State Forest.
Thanks for the great cache Pesky!
On Martinsville Road near Watagan State Forest.
Thanks for the great cache Pesky!
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