It’s hard to believe but in days gone by telephone booths were a device that everyone wanted to use and at one time were the only way to make a telephone call outside of the home. In fact, such was its appeal that before the advent of the mobile phone, people would literally queue outside payphone boxes just to call someone ‘privately’, or at least without the rest of the family in earshot. These days of course, calls are predominantly made using the mobile phone – a gadget most of us already take for granted – and future generations will only see phone booths in museums or books. Read the rest of this entry »