Recent content by Mark Barrett

Thank you for the additional information. I know so much more now than when I first asked this question. It's interesting about the idea of having a telephone in the top of the box. This one here has one large door on the one side and two on the other. I wondered why that might be and it...

Thank you John that is REALLY helpful. :) I hadn't come across that term before - but now when I put it into Google quite a lot of stuff comes up from all over the country. One webpage says that feeder boxes would be located approximately every half mile on the system. So my next task is to...

Can somebody help with this query please - or if there is a better place to raise it point me in the right direction. :) I live in West Bromwich and this cast iron box is in our local Park. It has recently had a coat of paint which is why it looks so good. Anyway I am told that it used to be...