Second life English phone booths

    




Black tea with lemon, double-Decker buses and red phone booths to imagine Britain without these "attributes" is simply impossible. However, despite the conservatism of the British iconic telephone boxes today under threat of extinction. Mobile phones and the Internet have become so ingrained in everyday life that the need for street machines is gradually disappearing, but British Telecom company found a creative solution to save the historical appearance of English cities. The efforts of the company, a phone booth was converted into a... library!





Ten years ago, on British streets, there were about 92,000 telephones, today they are twice lower. Thousands of red boxes was dismantled as unnecessary, despite the fact that in many towns and villages they were regarded as an integral part of the architectural ensemble. Many Britons are outraged that on the site once their machines today empty, the street without them literally orphaned.





To save the remaining red phone booths, British Telecom company launched in 2009 the program "Adopt a kiosk". For a nominal fee of £1, anyone could "convert" the telephone booth according to your wishes. In three years more than 1,500 guns were turned into art galleries, cafes and exhibitions of florists, grocery stores, and the most popular was their transformation into... a library.

The principle of operation of the makeshift library is akin to bookcrossing: anyone can take a book to read or a DVD with a movie that would look. Instead the reader leaves any other book, magazine or DVD, thus, the number of books remains unchanged, and the Fund is constantly updated.

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