Old AA Boxes, any survivors near you?

CynicAl, Leffeboy and I are just back from a weekend bike tour. Along the way we passed the old (it looks to have been renovated)AA box on the north side of the Cairn o’Mount.

I think there also used to be another north of Blairgowrie on the Glenshee road too.

When I joined the AA back in the 80’s, I was issued with a diamond shaped key to open any of the network of boxes to ring for assistance. I never even stopped for a peek inside one.

Are there any survivors near you, pics would be appreciated.

This is near Ardgay

Can’t post pics but I know of one at mere near knutsford and further afield one between Grasmere and Keswick…

The road from Aberfeldy to Tummel Bridge at the Schehallion junction has one I think.

I think there is still one at the top of porlock hill.

Betwixt Elgin and fochabers there existeth a box.

I think there is still one at the top of porlock hill.

Yes we cycled past it last week – its got historical importance due to the Lynmouth flood.

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Opened the thread to see if it was about the cairn o mount box. Was not disappointed!

There’s one on the road up Wensleydale too.

Lets see if we can get some pics with bikes and boxes

This is from the AA website

“By the early 1960s no more traditional boxes were being built and now only 19 remain, eight of which are Grade II listed buildings.”

Is there still one on the road from grasmere to Keswick or did it get destroyed in the flooding?

The AA are one of our customers, I did a site visit once and it’s… weird.

They have military ranks as part of their internal structure. They don’t have team leaders or middle management, they have lieutenants, colonels and sergeants.

Dava Moor

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Someone’s edited post maid mine irrelevant

thenorthwind – Member
There’s one on the road up Wensleydale too.

Box 442 a gradeII listed building, used to pass it regularly in the summer between ski lake and caravan site.

There’s one outside the Natyffin pub on the A40 a few miles outside Crickhowell, was restored a while back.

I may have been inside it a few times before restoration while waiting for a taxi after hours in said pub 😳 😆

Cambus o’ May, A93, Aberdeenshire

Cappercleuch

Funny you should mention this…..

Parochial local news item….[/url]

http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/200396822-threapland-wood-aa-sentry-box-no-714-urquhart#.WUrLyuvys_M

joshvegas is right, just about Urquhart turn-off / A96 / Loch Oire..

Not sure how to do google street view image but link here:
AA box on A96.

http://www.redphonebox.info/galleryAA.html

Bottom of the Struie, between Tain and Bonar Bridge.

On the way out of Aysgarth towards Leyburn A684

AA Aysgarth by Jones96er[/url], on Flickr

Nabbed from Google Maps.

Funny, but I passed the Cambus O’May one the other day and thought the same thing. Are they in use for anything now?

Ah those were the days. Patrolmen used to salute members too.

I passed the one on Dava Moor a few weeks ago, just as the heavens opened. Prompted the thought that I still have an old AA key somewhere!

It was a wonderful system. If you broke down you only had to walk 10 miles or so to be able to phone for assistance.

The wonders of modern technology, eh?

One not too far from me. Image from Google Maps:

Next to the old children’s home, for fans of Hinterland.

Paton – the Clappercleuch one was the one that immediately sprang to mind. I passed it a few weeks ago and remembered an occasion my dad used that very box in late 60s using the special key

One on the A40 just after Crickhowell. Opposite the Cider Mill pub

here

Beadnell village in Northumberland

Wonder if it’s possible to construct an audax out of AA boxes as controls…

There’s one on the A5 just before Betws

Gozarch – I was going to say there’s one next to Pontarfynach Children’s home 😆

Next to the old children’s home, for fans of Hinterland.

I was literally thinking “I wonder is devil’s is that devil’s bridge place in hinterland”

Beadnell village in Northumberland

Didn’t know that, whereabouts?

Didn’t know that, whereabouts?

On the B1340, to the North of the village. It’s well covered by trees and is hard to see when you drive past.

It’s now a Grade II listed building.
http://www.northumberlandgazette.co.uk/news/fighting-to-save-90-year-old-aa-box-1-1478716

So are there any RAC boxes surviving?

Is there a map of locations?

We stumbled across this box today. Cappercleuch at the Tweedsmuir junction on the A708 Moffat road