Telephone Box

A yellow telephone box in Overbury? Surely not! Everyone knows they have to be green.

At Overbury in Worcestershire the local land owner Tim Holland-Martin has a problem. The newly formed British Telecom wants to paint the village telephone box BT yellow. The family avoided having it GPO red so this just won't do. It's always been green, and, as he points out to John Swallow, if it was any other colour the locals simply wouldn't be able to find it!