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Kiosk box coins in the cash
Tuesday September 16th 2008. Posted: 09:30
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Pictured in front of the A & B box display at Amberley Working Museum are, from left, Sloane Vaughan, Lisa Foard, Mike Burgess, Alec Bonsall and Fred Stanford
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A stash of cash collected last winter in an interactive display at Amberley Working Museum has provided a welcome bonus for St Barnabas House hospice, Worthing.
The money came from a modified version of the old A and B button coin boxes used in telephone kiosks from the 1930s to the 1970s. The mechanism in the display at the Connected Earth gallery has been changed to allow current 2p and 10p coins to be inserted into a see-through perspex box so that visitors can see and hear how it works. Coloured lights and the transparent case allow visitors to follow the process of taking their money, and the sounds the coins make are amplified so that people can hear how operators used to determine the amount of money that had been inserted. You can also hear, by lifting an adjacent handset, how a long distance call would have been made from a telephone box up to 40 years ago. At the end of the demonstration, the visitor can either opt to press ‘Button B’ to get their money back or to press ‘Button A’ - which would normally have connected their call - to deposit the money into the cash container. Any money collected is then donated to a local hospice, on this occasion St Barnabas. Thirty-eight pounds in 2p and 10p coins was handed over to St Barnabas fundraising representatives Lisa Foard and Sloane Vaughan by Connected Earth’s Mike Burgess, Alec Bonsall and Fred Stanford. Fred said that the team at Connected Earth had been surprised at how popular the display had been and at the generosity of the visitors in pressing button ‘A’ to help raise funds for a worthy cause. The fundraising is continuing and next time it will be the turn of a different local hospice to benefit.
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