The era of streetcorner public telephones may be over in most of the world and certainly in the United Kingdom, but the iconic red boxes have found a variety of new uses, including as internet stations, miniature museums, ATMs and more.
On a recent trip, I found that many of them in Northamptonshire have been re-purposed to house automatic defibrillators to save the lives of heart-attack victims. In the case of the one in the title photo, it also houses a mini-library.
The boxes shown here are K-6 boxes, a slightly smaller version of the original K-2, designed by famed architect Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, who also designed Liverpool Cathedral, Battersea Power Station and the Cambridge University Library. As the sign says, it’s a Grade II listed landmark!
