Adopt a phone box...

[Spinney]

Has anyone done this?

There is a red phone box on the road outside my house that will soon be decommissioned. The clean-up-the-village group are discussing adopting it with the Parish Council. If we get the go-ahead they suggested I might like to project manage the sorting out of it!

Just wondering if there was any experience out there? I'm sure I could find myself very, very busy with work over the summer if it's likely to be a total nightmare!

 

[biggs682]

A couple of villages nearby have turned them into book swap area

 

[Fnaar]

Turn it into a public urinal

 

[Sara_H]

A phone box near to my OH's parents house has been adopted by the community as a little swap shop. People leave books, seedlings and various other bits and pieces in there to be taken by whoever would like them on the understanding that the new owners will leave something in return. Also used as a notice board with lots of flyers for local services etc.

 

[ColinJ]

A couple of villages nearby have turned them into book swap area

We have some here too - EXAMPLE.

 

[growingvegetables]

No experience whatsoever, so no help. But heartfelt support.

There's a couple of villages in East Yorkshire with redundant phone boxes. And there is NOTHING so sad as a redundant phone box, door askew, with nothing but a faded, yellowed, damp and mildewed notice hanging inside it ... inviting adoption. Just SAD.

 

[Drago]

Put a bucket inside and rename it the Turdis.

 

[Old jon]

Moral support from me, I pass the ex box in Weston fairly often, a sad sight indeed.

 

[stephec]

Continue using it as a public urinal

FTFY.

 

[annedonnelly]

I've no idea how it's done but it sounds a great idea. If you've already got a group keeping the village tidy I'd think that'd be half the battle. Surely the biggest problem is people using it as a litter bin - or like some of the other contributors - a urinal.

 

[ColinJ]

Turn it into a public urinal

Shouldn't that be maintain it as a public urinal, since most callboxes seemed to be treated as urinals anyway!

(Going in the other direction ... somebody in Cragg Vale turned some derelict public toilets into a lovely little cottage!

)

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Also a few around the Leicestershire villages that have been turned into libraries. Also a few are used for defibrillators. I even know of one that still has a working phone in it.

 

[ufkacbln]

Also used as a notice board with lots of flyers for local services etc.

@Fnaar

I believe this is a tradition for "ladies of negotiable virtue"

 

[Sara_H]

@Fnaar

I believe this is a tradition for "ladies of negotiable virtue"

How dare you? I'll have you know my in-laws live in a very nice area - none of those shenanigans if you don't mind!

 

[growingvegetables]

I even know of one that still has a working phone in it.

I'm a real sucker for stopping to test whether the phone still works.


A tad annoying for family if I'm doing an over night ride