Updated on Monday, February 22, 2010 at 5:17PM by Will Stewart

At a time when all but the poorest of the poor seem to have cell phones, I would have thought payphones to be a thing of the past – a quaint Twentieth Century anachronism.

But it turns out I was wrong.

According to the New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission, which regulates such things, there are, as of 2009, some 282 functioning payphones spread across Manchester, NH, including what is arguably the coolest payphone in the city - an old school British phone booth located near the City Hall Annex on Market Street:

 

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