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Posted: **Sun Mar 13, 2011 10:15 pm**

New library opens in a phone box

A former phone box has a new lease of life as a has been transformed into what must be one of the UK's smallest libraries.

The villagers of Point near Truro were so keen to keep using their red phone box that they have turned it into a "book stop".

The old kiosk is now full of biographies, novels and non-fiction publications ,although one thing not on offer is a phone book.

The new venture has proven so popular there are plans to expand it.

One Point resident, Margaret Wilson, said: "It's wonderful. We only get our mobile library every fortnight and I am an avid reader.

"Although I have book cases all over my house, I still find at the end of two weeks I have run out of books to read."

While many traditional phone boxes have disappeared since their peak in 1980 when there were 73,000, Point's kiosk looks set to have a busy future.

Villagers will soon be able to swap plants in the old red phone box as well

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-12697012

Posted: **Mon Mar 14, 2011 1:14 am**

Were they going to lose the phone box, otherwise?

Just some Loca-lore;

My father had saved his fathers first home phone which was a old wooden box you had to crank to ring. He had saved it as a novel antique, but had never expected it would actually ever work again. However, here in the Silicon Valley much technology is preserved, and the newspaper published an article about a local engineer who's hobby was restoring old phones to working conditions. Long story short: after the engineer was contacted and the mouse turds were cleaned out of it; the phone was put in working order and we used it the kitchen for many years.

*BBBBBBBBBBrrrring*

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