Requiem for a Red Box

“In 1924 a curious competition took place in which leading architects of the day were asked to design a cast iron Kiosk to house the public telephone. …
In 1985 British Telecom decided in their wisdom that these boxes were too costly to maintain in the face of decay and vandalism, and they began to remove them and replace them with an assortment of booths and canopies. There was uproar.
John Timpson traces in his usual jovial style the decline and fall of the red telephone box in his beautifully designed and produced Requiem for a Red Box. The book is divided into two sections: a history of telephone boxes, followed by a look at their demise and subsequent reincarnation as cocktail bars, shower units, bookcases and even aquaria!
Throughout the book the reader will also find a number of ‘overheard’ telephone conversations tied-in to the amusing and evocative photographs many of which have been specially taken for the book.”