London’s red phone boxes ‘reinvented’


The first traditional London telephone box (right) to be transformed into a solar-powered mobile phone charger for use by the public, is pictured next to a traditional red telephone box in central London, in 2014. It is one of thousands of phone boxes which are enjoying a new lease of life. – AFP pic, December 15, 2017.

FACING extinction due to ubiquitous mobile phones, Britain’s classic red telephone boxes are being saved from death row by ingenious conversions into all sorts of new uses.

“It smells nice,” a passer-by said while sniffing the waft of hot stew steaming out of one phone box in the heart of London.


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