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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Lee Grimsditch

Unassuming telephone box people travel across the world to see

A red telephone box that stands on the corner of a residential street is regarded as a piece of Merseyside history by those who fought to save it.

If you happen to be passing Greenwood Road in Meols, Wirral, and notice a gang of 40 to 60-year-olds loitering outside a telephone box, don't be alarmed. It'll no doubt be a gathering of music fans, some of who may well have travelled thousands of miles to be there.

The history of this red telephone box is inextricably linked to Merseyside band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD). Before finding fame, the members of the pioneering '80s electronic synth-pop group once used the telephone box as a makeshift office.

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