Yours for £1: what would you do with a traditional red phone box?

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BT is putting 4,000 phone boxes up for adoption. Many have already been turned into libraries, defibrillator stations, even tiny art galleries

Age: Sir Giles Gilbert Scott’s original K2 design dates from 1924, but his smaller K6, from 1936, is the the more widespread.You mean it depends on the nature of the telephone call you wish to place? Of course not – nobody uses phone boxes to make calls any more.

 

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Can they be imported into Spain?

We use ours as a book exchange library in the village

Seen a few made into flower displays.

We turned on into a little free library with children’s books next to a playground

Bookshel

Unit one: add twin level refrigeration, insulation, humidity control and make into a vertical wine closet. Next unit ; add heat and insulation to become sauna. Next unit: Rent to movie and TV producers making mid 20th century spy flics.

Urinal’s

Put a urinal in it.

For a quid I’d stick one in garden

Fill them with erotic literature ?

I wonder what the shipping cost to the US would be. I’d take one in a heartbeat.

Library and hobby box

Travel to 2003 and convince NBC not to run 'The Apprentice'.

Not turn it into a ‘so called library’ because it isn’t! libraries

In Brighton they serve coffee out of them. Of course they do.

I live in northern Quebec. My neighbour’s son has to stand waiting beside the road for bone chilling minutes every school day in winter, temps often descending to -25, -30 c. I’d set it up by the road for him.

Use as a shower!

Ok

Change into my superhero costume.

paint it green

Jparamour a bit of garden furniture for you?

They will be worth a Fortune in the future. Im sure you could flog em to Americans, or Chinese known to buy Cans of Air from the UK even.

They are very often used as toilets , public toilets 🤮

Get two and put in some big ass speakers and play Holst's The Planets really really loud

Use it as a piggy bank

Disinfect the smell of piss out of it first probably

Turn it into a vending machine.

Turn them into an outdoor shower 😂

I own a red telepone box - been lovingly restored and in my garden for over 30 years

Sell it for £2

I will use it to talk on the phone. That will be so cool!

Put BorisJohnson in it to let him enjoy the Britishness of it all while we put the UK back together. Take the phone out first though obviously Rejoin :)

Great place to smoke dope. Or For Dominic Cummings birthday party for him and all of his friends.

Turn it into a time travelling machine! Oh, wait. You said PHONE box ... Never mind.

Turn it into an auricular theatre.

Put it at the end of the garden and convert it into a minipub when entertaining in the summer.

Put it in my living room...with a big sign that says mine! Whats the shipping to TEXAS?

Office cubicle for the bloke that didn’t turn in his expenses for 6 months.

I would sneak in there, away from my dog, to eat chocolate

Open floor plan offices need a private space for employees to make phone calls. How many times have you seen people in stairwells trying to make a private phone call? What is old is new again.

Roomy Gite?

What I did the other day, shelter in it from the rain whilst I drank my latte and ate my bacon sarnie. Nice one near Westminster Abbey. After lockdown though...who knows? 🤔😊

Leave my phone number

Stick some porn magazines in it

Drinks cabinet

Turn it into a Tardis & go to the Andromeda Galaxy

Turn back the clock to the 80s, smash the money box up, and have a piss in it.

First, sanitize it.

Put it in the corner of my bar. 🍻

LibDem conference centre.

Paint it blue.

Shower maybe?

Greenhouse :-D

Drink cabinet.

There has to be a way to turn one into a sauna.

Change into my supersuit of course!

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