A British Icon

You won't see many of the original red telephone boxes around.
Many have been replaced by the more modern version with glass front and sides and around the country many phone boxes have disappeared completely.
But today I was fortuanate to find an original red telephone box, still being used as a telephone box.
Yet once it was a familiar sight on the streets all over the country as well as in far away places like Malta, Bermuda and Gibraltar. The colour was originally chosen to make them easy to find. It was around 1926 that a crown was emblazoned on them, and by doing so, the red phone box became an iconic British symbol to be recognised everywhere.
They have not been made since 1985 when the glass fronted boxes were introduced.
I recall visiting one French town in Normandy where a red telephone box stood prominently by a crossroads as a symbol of a twinning between the town and a village this side of the Channel.
Such was the iconic value of the red box!
So it was with some affection that I spied the solitary box today - and a complete surprise that it still had a telephone in working order.
Nostalgia maybe? Yet in years to come I don't think I will ever look upon the age of mobile phones - which effectively has been the reason for the decline of public phone boxes - in quite the same way as the red phone box.