Hundreds of Britain’s red phone boxes up for community ‘adoption’

A woman posts a letter in a Royal Mail post box, alongside florally decorated red phone boxes the High Street in Uxbridge, west London. Photo: AFP

Around 1,000 red phone boxes are up for “adoption” in Britain amid a continuing decline in the use of payphones.

Architect Giles Gilbert Scott designed the first incarnation of the famous red phone box for a competition in 1924.