More than 2,000 across the UK have been included already - call boxes falling out of favour with the public due to the rapid growth of mobile phones, text messaging and emails.
Brigg Town councillors were made aware of the literature but there has been no call, so far, to consider signing up.
Find out more about the scheme here
We think Brigg town centre's call boxes still see more use than most, but what about the survivors on our housing estates?
When was the last time YOU made a call from a public phone box?
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This scheme, but perhaps not in this form, has been out for years - at one time BT was selling parish/town councils a phone box for about a quid..
Some villages have adapted the old phone box as part of a floral display and another village uses the box a free communal book exchange - ie villagers leave read books in the kiosk and take another book to read......Be creative...
It maybe interesting to note that a photo dated 1954 shows that the phone kiosk was then situated about 40ish feet in front of what is now Molly's Flowers...at some time after that date, both the phone box and the pillar box have been relocated against the bank's wall....
Anyway....we have to keep the phone box at all costs...Clark Kent needs somewhere to change into Superman when he visits Brigg...
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