Communities battle to save last of the famous red phone boxes

Communities battle to save last of the famous red phone boxes

By Lesley Walsh WITH just a handful of BT’s iconic red phone boxes still in use throughout the borough, campaigns are underway to save these cultural artefacts from becoming totally redundant amid today’s near blanket mobile phone use. As the old-fashioned telephones inside these classic K6 kiosks become obsolete, communities are filling them instead with life-saving defibrillators, books, food banks and all manner of public services, with plans…