Locals in the Frenchay Hill area spent six months renovating the phone box, which has been fitted with shelves used to stock books donated by the community. In Bristol, residents have rallied to create a tiny library.
They are wonderful creations but honestly who needs a phonebook now when 95% of Uk households have a mobile? The KX100 version kept the vibe alive for a while but had no sides at the bottom so whilst it lost it’s iconic design it didn’t stink of piss in quite the same way.The phone box took six months to renovate (Photo: SWNS) The original wooden K2 prototype still nestles comfortably under the left hand arch of the Royal Academy in London and there’s enough subtle variants of style and colour to keep any obsessive collector happy but let’s not get sidetracked please. The Original crown was the Tudor Crown, replaced in 1953 by Queenie with the actual St Edward’s crown used in coronations, picked out nicely in gold paint since the 1990’s. Wikipedia says the red colour caused ‘particular local difficulties and there were many requests for less visible colours’, presumably that currant red (BS381C-Red539) was pre-iconic. They also turn up in Malta, Bermuda, Cyprus and Gibralatar, just to prove that The Empire wasn’t all bad. The original K2 version was designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott in 1926 and then updated in 1936 with a similar but smaller and cheaper K6 version. As famous as any though is that cheeky red telephone box that just won’t disappear.
The London Taxi, the Tube Map, Red Post Boxes, the Mini, the Kilt. The UK seems to have more iconic designs than any other country. If you’ve got your eye on a phonebook conversion sign up here and get yourself down to your local DIY for some shelf brackets Sir Giles would have been proud of. The Coracle was very happy getting rid of Tamsin Calidas’ I Am An Island in return for the RSPCA Guide to Eagles. You can choose to swap a book or just return the one you have borrowed after reading. As the box in the badlands of South London says ‘It’s not what you get but what you leave behind’. The creation of a phonebox library expresses a communion with your fellow humans, all the more so since it’s an honesty communion. This is certainly missing the point though. It does seem wonderfully anachronistic to replace even a mobile library with a space that must hold a few dozen books tops.
#LIBRARY IN A PHONEBOX FULL#
There’s an interactive map here with a full list of UK locations. The libraries seem the most popular though with more than 150 communities going down that road. In other news they have also been converted into galleries, tea stops, card shops and defibrillator access points. In the same year BT introduced their Adopt a Phonebox scheme for a nominal £1 you can use your box for anything you fancy, except telephony. On losing their mobile library they decided to convert their K6 box into a static library, albeit a very small one. Production of the red boxes stopped in 1985 but in 2009 the village of Westbury-sub-Mendip gave us a glimpse toward a new dawn for these grand old dames. They are wonderful creations but honestly who needs a phonebox now when 95% of UK households have a mobile? The KX100 version kept the vibe alive for a while but had no sides at the bottom so whilst it lost its iconic design it didn’t stink of wee in quite the same way. The wooden K2 prototype still nestles comfortably under the left hand arch of the Royal Academy in London and there’s enough subtle variants of style and colour across the country to keep any obsessive collector happy but let’s not get sidetracked please. The boxes also turn up in Malta, Bermuda, Cyprus and Gibraltar, just to prove that The Empire wasn’t all bad. The original crown at the top of the box was the Tudor Crown design, replaced by Queenie in 1953 with St Edward’s crown, as used in coronations and picked out nicely in gold paint since the 1990s. Wikipedia says the red colour originally caused ‘particular local difficulties and there were many requests for less visible colours’, the famous currant red seems to have been accepted now.
The original K2 version was designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott in 1926, then updated in 1936 with a similar but smaller, cheaper, K6 version. As famous as any though is the red telephone box. The UK seems to have more iconic designs than any other country the London black cab, red post boxes, the Mini, the London Underground map, the kilt.
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