TARDIS-LIKE EXIT FROM BRIGG

Brigg has lost one of its public telephone boxes. 
We can't recall attending any council meetings when correspondence was considered from the telephone company about its removal, though we don't think there's a duty to inform anyone in such cases - even within a Conservation Area like ours. 
The box that has copied Dr Who's Tardis and disappeared from view was sited on Wrawby Street, near the junction with Queen Street.
We've found a past picture (reproduced below) of it sporting a rather striking advert for local Kumon educational classes, and have also pictured the same location today (above).
We used this box years ago to phone through the scores of our Brigg Hockey Club home games to the Yorkshire League (breaking off mid-pint in a nearby hostelry to do so).
Some years ago we recorded the removal of the public telephone box at the corner of King's Avenue and Bigby Road.
"In today's era of mobile phones, email and text messaging, the old phone boxes, which have served communities like ours so well, are getting less and less use. So it's no great surprise when the plug is pulled," we reported at the time.
"Sources suggest Brigg Town Council was not informed the King's Avenue facility was being removed. If they had been it's hard to think of any valid reasons to object, other than the box could be used in a 999 situation, perhaps to summon an ambulance or fire engine."
In decades gone by, telephone boxes in Brigg got so much use that queues used to form outside them. And Brigg folk use to tap on the window - not always politely - to ask whether the current caller was going to be much longer.
In the days before house phones became the norm - never mind mobiles - public call boxes in Brigg helped summon assistance from the town fire brigade for chimney blazes, and ambulances for mums-to-be.
The boxes also became popular meeting places, particularly for teenagers.
As with all facilities, it's a case of use it or lose it. So, if the public phone box near you stands idle for most of the day, don't be surprised if workmen arrive in their van one day and take it away.
You don't have to walk far to find another public phone box, now the one at the top of Wrawby Street has gone.
There's still one - in working order - near the old Post Office building on the corner of Queen Street and Bigby Street.
This is a much older box than the one installed many years later, 100 yards away on Wrawby Street, now removed.
We know we are not the only long-serving Brigg resident to have walked along Wrawby Street many, many times recently and not spotted that the phone box had been removed.