I read with interest your article (August 10) asking whether a red telephone box in North Stoke, a hamlet near Amberley in West Sussex, was the smallest tourist information centre in the country.

It is an ingenious use of this historic feature within the hamlet.

For some reason, the red telephone box, designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, can be often seen in picturesque villages but has, to a greater or lesser extent, been removed from the often more rugged urban landscape.

Perhaps this is to do with the English dream of an idyllic village – whether such a thing has ever existed is debatable.

I think red telephone boxes, as part of our history, should be just as rooted in the urban landscape. The city of Brighton and Hove is a tourist city and this icon would be a great feature in our environment, with an impact out of all proportion to its size.

Nicholas Dunn-Coleman, The Droveway, Hove