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PHONE BOX, Village Green, Somewhere in Perthshire (1962–2026): Converted to Library, Then Defibrillator, Then Shed
A long life of reinvention for Perthshire's hardest-working wee red box.
A red telephone box in rural Scotland, still standing. Photo: Victuallers, “Town Yetholm K6 Telephone Box 02”, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
PERTHSHIRE — We mark the passing of a red telephone box which, in its long career, has been a phone, a library, a defibrillator station, a seed swap, a lost-property office and, finally, a shed for a lawnmower.
“It never complained,” said a villager. “It just took whatever we gave it.”
It is survived by a book about birds and an umbrella that no one has claimed since 2018.
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