British Telephone Boxes – Icons of Style
The distinctive, red, British, public telephone box is another icon of the UK’s streets to rank alongside the postal pillar box and the Mini Cooper. Read more on British telephone boxes.
Covent Garden telephone boxes
With the advent of the mobile phone, the number of public phone kiosks in Britain is rapidly diminishing and many are just empty shells with no phone inside.
Two telephone boxes
History
The first public phone box appeared in the UK in 1920 but it was not until 1924 that the first red kiosk (K2) appeared.
Hyde Park, London
Gilbert Scott
The architect Sir Giles Gilbert Scott (1880-1960) won a competition to design the new kiosk but it was the later K6 version in cast iron that was to become widespread across the UK from the 1930s, incorporating the royal crown in the roof section.
From 2000 onwards a more utilitarian BT Telecom steel and glass design began to replace the K6.
Telephone boxes were often built in pairs
K6 boxes can still be seen in Malta, Bermuda, and Gibraltar as well as scattered around the globe as art objects.
Some phone boxes were early internet stations and some remain wireless hotspots.
On Piccadilly outside Green Park, London
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