h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Just found this reference to the UK's 'least used phone box'. It presumably gained this dubious distinction since I stopped using it on a regular basis when I lived just up the lane in the Eighties. For some reason the kiosk was sited in a field rather than on the road, an odd arrangement I've never seen anywhere else. I often used it to call my friends rather than have to beg the use of the house phone and have my conversation overheard by my parents.

http://flickr.com/photos/86794183@N00/138679671/

http://icnorthwales.icnetwork.co.uk/news/regionalnews/tm_objectid=16958779&method=full&siteid=50142&headline=plea-to-bt-to-spare-britain-s-least-used-phone-box--name_page.html

The story's a couple of years old, I wonder if the box survives?

The area has something of a tradition when it comes to phone box notoriety. In 1982 the next-nearest kiosk to my home, about half a mile further away at a little cluster of council houses called Bro Silyn, hit the headlines when it was found that it was being bugged. It seems that the police were attempting to uncover 'terrorist' plots being cooked up by Meibion Glyndŵr, but there was quite a furore over the dubious legality of the operation. The discovery of the bugging was made by an old chap called Moses who used to drive the taxi that took me and my brothers to school; he got a highly improbable fifteen minutes of fame out of the scandal.

Why didn't I preview? That should, of course, have been 'Glyndwr' with a circumflex over the w. And you'll have to copy the first link to your address bar.

Hopefully it meets a nicer fate than this one: A13200201

Yours looks like a lovely place to make a call from.

I was thinking of that one when I read Parrfers' post

It is a rather stunning place, it's just a shame that I never really appreciated it at the time.

Incidentally, the peak prominent in the background is called Mynydd Mawr, which translates as 'Big Mountain'. Who says the Welsh are a nation of poets!