Dorset red phone boxes for sale for one pound

Six public phone boxes in West Dorset and Weymouth are are being planned for removal by BT because of low use.

They are at Mosterton Cross, Mosterton, close to the Brace of Pheasants pub at Plush and in Mount Skippet Way at Crossways and in Weymouth at Hope Square, Franchise Street and Carlton Road South.

Comments on the proposals can be submitted until June 28th.

A number of boxes across the area have already been declared redundant.

BT is offering the boxes, for alternative uses, for a token sum of £1.

In other areas they have been put to use for public notices, seed banks and book banks or event for heart defibrillators.

Often the boxes have been ‘adopted’ by town and parish councils. Visit bt.com/adopt for more information.

BT say that over recent years the use of its public phone boxes have dropped by 90 per cent or more with cases of some not having been used for a year, or more. It says that 98 per cent of the country is now covered by the mobile phone network.

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