WILLOUGHBY District Parish Council near Alford in Lincolnshire covers a number of hamlets. It purchased the box from BT for £1 in 2016, but repainting and repairs are expected to cost in excess of £1,000. UCKFIELD Town Council in East Sussex is to move a disused red phone box from near the railway station to a site near Harlands School for use as a library and perhaps also to house a defibrillator. The project was a real community effort, with many people lending a hand at different stages. It will now be used as a book swap and information point which, it is hoped, will benefit the village for many years to come. The box was then refurbished and the Friends of the Flitch Way tidied up its new location and installed a bench next to it.
Eventually, after it was removed from its concrete slab, a local haulage company helped to move it to a new location at Rayne Station. It bought the redundant kiosk from BT for a nominal fee in 2017, and then set about relocating it to a more prominent site in the village.Ī district council grant enabled the power to be disconnected by UK Power Networks, before the pandemic temporarily put the project on hold. RAYNE Parish Council in Essex held a grand reopening ceremony on 19 June for its repurposed red telephone box. The balance came from a grant from North Norfolk District Council and from parish council funds. Consequently the rather sad looking red telephone box in Skeyton was given a makeover by local resident Phil Davison and used to house a new defibrillator, which was part funded by Andrew’s family and dedicated to his memory. It turned out that her brother, Andrew Williams, had died last year aged 56 he enjoyed holidaying in the county. The original idea was to place it on the wall of the village hall, according to clerk Diane Fields, but when researching costings the council discovered that a member of the public had contacted Community Heartbeat Trust offering to help fund a defibrillator on condition it was placed in a telephone box. SKEYTON Parish Council in Norfolk recently decided to purchase a defibrillator because the nearest one was a few miles away. We hope that it will bring a little more joy, a little more connection and a whole lot more books to our community.” Jenna Munday, deputy town clerk, said: “This library doesn’t just belong to the town council it belongs to the whole town. Residents are also welcome to donate books. The service is proving popular, with a choice of fiction and non-fiction, biographies, romance and children’s books. Its groundsmen repaired and repainted the kiosk on Quarry Road, and books were donated by Broseley Library.
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Libraries, art installations, life-saving defibrillators …īROSELEYTown Council in Shropshire has opened a Free Little Library in an old BT red telephone box. INNOVATIVE USES FOR REDUNDANT RED TELEPHONE BOXES You are viewing : Home » Telephone boxes Telephone boxes
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