The current red phone box in Sea Mills Square no longer has a phone inside and has been adopted by Sea Mills Community Initiatives. As part of the Sea Mills 100 heritage project it will be converted into a mini museum which will open in June 2019 and stay for a year. If you would like to help please get in touch.
The current phone box is a K6 designed by Gilbert Scott and introduced in 1936 to celebrate the Silver Jubilee of King George V
Previously there was another phone box on this site. It has features similar to a K1 Mark 235 or K1 Mrk 236, which was made of concrete, they were first used in 1922 which would be right for the origins of the estate.
Photo: Vaughan postcard know your place
There was also another phone box at one time at the other end of St Edyths Road by the Pentagon which looks more like the later K6. Does anyone remember that?
Photo: Postcard, collection of Mary Milton
Incidentally. Do we think this is the Addison Oak? Or is that further back?
UPDATE: We can be sure now that the tree in the black and white photo above is definitely not the oak. You can see both trees in the later photo below.
