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There is something quintessentially English and eccentric about the villagers in Westbury-sub-Mendip in Somerset who have turned a traditional red phone box into the country’s smallest lending library.
The recent closure of the phone box service may not have caused any problems to villagers in these days of mobile phones, but when they lost the services of the mobile library one villager thought of the idea of purchasing the phone box and turning it in into a lending library.
Villagers simply stock it with books they have read and take away another one. A parish councillor said, ‘This facility has turned a piece of street furniture into a community service in constant use.’
In other villages around the country have turned red phone boxes into art installations, a shower and even a public toilet.
Right on Westbury-sub-Mendip!
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There is something quintessentially English and eccentric about the villagers in Westbury-sub-Mendip in Somerset who have turned a traditional red phone box into the country’s smallest lending library.
The recent closure of the phone box service may not have caused any problems to villagers in these days of mobile phones, but when they lost the services of the mobile library one villager thought of the idea of purchasing the phone box and turning it in into a lending library.
Villagers simply stock it with books they have read and take away another one. A parish councillor said, ‘This facility has turned a piece of street furniture into a community service in constant use.’
In other villages around the country have turned red phone boxes into art installations, a shower and even a public toilet.
Right on Westbury-sub-Mendip!
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