UK phone booth turns nightclub

A telephone box is seen on a street close to the Houses of Parliament in London, in this file photo.

A telephone box is seen on a street close to the Houses of Parliament in London, in this file photo.   | Photo Credit: AP

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It might be the world’s smallest nightclub, complete with glitterball, disco lights and a selection of telephone-themed tunes.

A small town in the U.K. has converted its red phone box into what might be the world’s smallest nightclub, complete with glitterball, disco lights and a selection of telephone-themed tunes.

Enter the phone box in Kingsbridge in the southwestern county of Devon, pop in a £1 coin and you, and possibly one close friend, can dance to songs such as Blondie’s Hanging On The Telephone or Telephone Line by Electric Light Orchestra, played over the phone.

With payphones all but defunct in the age of mobile telephones, local communities have sought ways of preserving the remaining phone boxes, treasured as relics of a bygone era.

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