Communities urged to buy iconic red phone boxes for just £1
More than a dozen iconic red phone boxes are being offered for sale by BT so communities can transform the disused call boxes into something else.
Ahead of the iconic red phone box turning 100 years of age, BT has revealed that around 1,000 of its kiosks are currently up for grabs across the UK for just £1 - and 20 of them are in Shropshire, with another 16 are dotted around the West Midlands in Sandwell, Dudley, South Staffordshire and Coventry.
Architect Sir Giles Gilbert Scott designed the first incarnation of the famous red phone box for a competition in 1924.
In recent years, however, with 98 per cent of the adult population now using a mobile phone, and significant improvements to mobile coverage, there has been a huge decline in the usage of payphones across the UK.
There are now around 20,000 remaining working payphones across the UK, around 3,000 of which are in traditional red kiosks. The number of phone boxes peaked in the 1990s at around 100,000.
