East Chiltington Telephone Box & Book Exchange

Visitors to England & London try to get a photograph with one of the iconic red telephone boxes which remain in the city. Sadly, few remain outside of London as we move away from fixed line communication and favour the mobile phone.

Public phone boxes are becoming relics and a reminder of the past - some communities around the UK are finding novel uses for them, in the case of the village of East Chiltington near Lewes the Phone Box is now a book exchange! I did a double take recently on the return drive from a meeting, naturally I had to stop and get a few snaps.

Here you can see what other communities are doing with their Phone Boxes https://business.bt.com/solutions/small-business/communities/adopt-a-kiosk/

The Phone Box was once part of the communication revolution, was championed by the GPO and now has a limited future as less than 3% of the population make calls via public telephones - in the UK alone there are over 6 million mobile contracts in place, and that's without all the pay as you go phones! At http://www.the-telephone-box.co.uk you can see a timeline of the development of humble phone box and how it fitted into the communication revolution.