Telephone Call-box at Ynysypandy

Red-painted cast-iron kiosk with two glazed sides, blank rear and wooden door with inserted glazed iron panel. Door on west face fitted opposite back panel and hinged left (known as door type A according to Diagram EC1324 of Specification D1140Q). Square plan with slightly raised plinth, glazing each side in horizontal panels with marginal bars. Top has four opalescent panels under shallow Soaneian domed roof with lunettes, each with embossed Tudor crown. Opalescent panels have monolingual ‘TELEPHONE’ lettering. Tudor crowns are flat bottomed and oval-less of the kind which only Macfarlane & Co continued to use on the K6 Mark 2. Rear panel is of K6 Mark 2 type with asymmetrical cable run-in holes at base to either side of manufacturers plate which reads –

MACFARLANE & Co Ltd SARACEN FOUNDRY GLASGOW

Modernised receiver equipment and shelf for telephone directory. 1970s half-cylinder power cover.