PRIMARY school pupils in Limekilns have re-purposed an old red telephone box to create a community book swap station.

Kids from Primary 5 and 6 classes decided to call upon their artistic skills and decorated the little library with artwork representing the village, from trees and flowers to recognisable landscapes.

Class teachers at Limekilns Primary School, Katy Miller and Lori Brisbane, to the Press: “The pupils from the middle stages of the school were asked to create artwork for the phone box that was to be turned into a local swapshop to encourage re-using.

“They decided it would be nice to represent aspects of the village through their designs.

“We discussed local trees, flowers and landscapes that are known to the village as well as making links to the local sailing club.

“We wanted our artwork to be bright and colourful to attract people to use this innovative phone box transformation.”

The children were also aided by the West Fife Rotary Club, who helped turn the box into a practical space.

Tom Pettigrew, who helped with the project, said: “We did four shelves and handed the whole thing over to Sue (Shone) at the community council to run.

“We won’t have any involvement in the operation of the facility, our role was just to try and get it started.

“I hope it goes well, for me it was a bit of fun as well, I quite enjoy these DIY projects.

“There were three of us; me, Robin Grant and Stuart Nicoll, we did the shelves and Alex Evan Wong replaced a panel.

“One of the top glass panels had fallen out, which would have been lit up in the old days, he went and got that sorted, so it was rain-proof.

“It is a book exchange, a public, informal library.

“If people see a book they can take it away, they can leave books, they can borrow them, they can take them back, it is all very informal.

“There are a lot of these things around, you see them all over and a lot of them are in telephone boxes across the UK.”