PHONE BOX CULL: Kiosks in Preston under threat of closure

BT has earmarked 20 phone boxes in Preston for removal

Across Lancashire almost a third of public phone boxes could be axed after telecommunications provider BT said they were under used.

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Twenty kiosks out of 104 could see the chop in Preston.

Here is a list of where they are and the number of calls which were made from each payphone in the last 12 months:

OUTSIDE OF SUB POST OFFICE THE BOULEVARD - 16

OPPOSITE PLOUGH AT EAVES EAVES LANE WOODPLUMPTON - 2

ADJ SUB POST OFFICE CATFORTH ROAD CATFORTH - 28

THE ORCHARD WOODPLUMPTON ROAD WOODPLUMPTON - 5

ADJ TO LEWTH HOUSE LEWTH LANE WOODPLUMPTON - 0

POPE LANE MILLER ROAD - 388

OPP SHERWOOD PUBLIC HOUSE. SHERWOOD WAY FULWOOD - 0

OUTSIDE OF 83 CONWAY DRIVE CONWAY DRIVE FULWOOD - 4

BUS SHELTER TAG LANE INGOL - 28

JNC OF BLACKPOOL ROAD VICTORIA PARK DRIVE LEA - 17

OPPOSITE OF SMITHS ARMS P/H DARKINSON LANE LEA TOWN - 1

JUNCTION OF SANDY LANE HOYLES LANE COTTAM - 3

JUNCTION OF SEYMOUR ROAD LYTHAM ROAD FULWOOD - 80

JUNCTION OF WADDINGTON RD POPE LANE RIBBLETON - 0

O/S THE RIBBLE LODGE PH RIBBLETON AVE RIBBLETON - 827

600 GARSTANG RD OPP STN LN GARSTANG ROAD BARTON - 3

JNC GARSTANG RD & JEPPS LN GARSTANG ROAD BARTON - 4

ENTERANCE TO HOSPITAL WHITTINGHAM - 14

O/S STAGS HEAD CAR PARK WHITTINGHAM LANE GOOSNARGH - 1

O/S GREENMAN HOTEL SILK MILL LANE GOOSNARGH - 4

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