Unless anybody knows better, the last public call box disappeared from Abingdon between November 2020 and September 2021 and was in Ock Street.
On the subject of the last telephones, the last manual telephone exchange, operated by human switchboard operators, was in Abingdon and closed in 1975. (Thank you to gbcovercollector.co.uk for the postmark). The Strowger Appreciation Site has pictures of the exchange.
According to Hooke’s Abingdon Almanack and Directory, the manual telephone exchange moved in with the post office in about 1932. The General Post Office and Telephone Exchange was at 25 High Street from 1932 until 1975, now Wetherspoons.
The Telephone Exchange is now on Stratton Way, but the exchange only takes up the lower floors. The upper floors are housing.
Just to add that the Telephone Exchange was on East St Helen Street in the 1920s.
Fascinating pieces of Abingdon history, a shame a red telephone kiosk wasn’t retained in the market place it could have housed a defibrillator.
The telephone directory was a great read, the Sergeant at Mace had his own telephone!