Check this out…
Residents in the village of Westbury-sub-Mendip in Somerset were so distraught at losing their library and ‘phone box in quick succession, that they bought the latter from BT for £1, and turned it into the former.
Yes, that’s a ‘phone box library right there – with 100 books waiting to be borrowed (so long as you drop a book off in return, that is). A triumph for local people power over the current trend of library closures.
Read the full story here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/somerset/8385313.stm
29/11/2009 at 7:27 pm Permalink
Wow that is so cool. Well done people of Westbury-sub-Mendip.
29/11/2009 at 8:35 pm Permalink
Love it! And that was the very village I stayed in while I was researching for Dark Summer. It’s five minutes from Wookey hole caves…