Vital pre-mobile communications facility?

Usage examples of phonebox.

Not one of the solid red ones that Jack remembered, but a phonebox none the less, not merely a phone in a hood on a pole.

The other man appeared to have been making for the phonebox himself, but when he saw Kent he stopped.

The man walked right up to within a yard or so of the phonebox and then stood and stared.

Down in the street, outside the phonebox, there was a glint, a flash of orange streetlamp light reflected on shining metal.

He rushed back up the road to the phonebox, back to the drain down which the hated American had kicked his knife.