 A K6 red telephone box in Oxford The red telephone box, a public telephone kiosk designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, was a once familiar sight on the streets of the United Kingdom. Red telephone boxes behind Young Dancer - Broad Street - London - England - 240404 The statue and phoneboxes are opposite the Royal Opera House Photo taken by Tagishsimon on the 24th April 2004 File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
Red telephone boxes behind Young Dancer - Broad Street - London - England - 240404 The statue and phoneboxes are opposite the Royal Opera House Photo taken by Tagishsimon on the 24th April 2004 File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
Enzo Plazzotta (1921 - October 12, 1981) was an Italian-born British sculptor. ...
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A classic red telephone box. ...
Sir Giles Gilbert Scott (November 9, 1880—February 8, 1960) was an English architect known for his work on such buildings as Liverpool Cathedral and Battersea Power Station. ...
The first standard public telephone kiosk introduced by the United Kingdom Post Office was produced in concrete in 1920 and was designated K1 (Kiosk No.1). This design was not of the same family as the familiar red telephone boxes. The telephone or phone (Greek: tele = far away and phone = voice) is a telecommunications device which is used to transmit and receive sound (most commonly voice and speech) across distance. ...
The term General Post Office is used by a number of postal administrations worldwide. ...
1920 (MCMXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January January 7 - Forces of Russian White admiral Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk. ...
The red telephone box was the result of a competition in 1924 to design a kiosk that would be acceptable to the London Metropolitan Boroughs which had hitherto resisted of the Post Office's effort to erect K1 kiosks on their streets. The organisers invited entries from three respected architects and, along with proposals from the Post Office and from the Birmingham Civic Society, the Fine Arts Commission judged the competition and selected the design submitted by Giles Gilbert Scott as the winner. The Post Office chose to make it in cast iron (Scott had suggested mild steel) and to paint it red (Scott had suggested "silver, with a bluey-green interior") and, with other minor changes of detail, Scott's design was brought into service as the Kiosk No.2 or K2. Cast iron usually refers to grey cast iron, but can mean any of a group of iron-based alloys containing more than 2% carbon (alloys with less carbon are carbon steel by definition). ...
Plain-carbon steel is a metal alloy, a combination of two elements, iron and carbon, where other elements are present in quantities too small to affect the properties. ...
From 1926 K2 was deployed in and around London and the K1 continued to be erected elsewhere. 1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ...
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K3 designed in 1930, again by Gilbert Scott was similar to K2 but was constructed from concrete and intended for nationwide use. Cheaper than the K2, it was still significantly more costly than the K1 and so that remained the choice for low-revenue sites. The standard colour scheme for both the K1 and the K3 was cream, with red glazing bars. 1930 (MCMXXX) is a common year starting on Wednesday. ...
K4 (designed by the Post Office Engineering Department in 1927) incorporated a post box and machines for buying postage stamps on the exterior. Only 50 kiosks of this design were built. 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ...
A selection of postal stamps from Hong Kong A postage stamp is evidence of pre-paying a fee for postal services. ...
K5 was a plywood construction introduced in 1934 and designed to be assembled and dismantled and used at exhibitions. 1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...
In 1935 K6 was designed to commemorate the silver jubilee of King George V. K6 was the first red telephone kiosk to be used extensively outside of London and many thousands were deployed in virtually every town and city, replacing most of the existing kiosks and establishing thousands of new sites. It has became a British icon, although it was not universally loved at the start. The red colour caused particular local difficulties and there were many requests for less visbile colours. The red that is now much loved was then anything but and the Post Office was forced into allowing a less strident grey with red glazing bars scheme for areas of natural and architectural beauty. 1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
A Silver Jubilee is a celebration held to mark a 25th anniversary. ...
George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert) (3 June 1865–20 January 1936) was the last British monarch of the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, changing the name to the House of Windsor in 1917. ...
In 1959 architect Neville Conder was commissioned to design a new box. The K7 design went no further than the prototype stage. K8 introduced in 1968 was designed by Bruce Martin. It was used primarily for new sites, replacing earlier models only when they they needed relocating or had been damaged beyond repair. The K8 retained a red colour scheme, but it was a different shade of red. A slightly brighter 'Poppy Red', this went on to be the standard colour across all kiosks. 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ...
Upon the privatisation of Post Office Telephone's successor, British Telecom (BT), the KX100, a more utilitarian design, began to replace most of the existing boxes. Some 2000 boxes were given listed status and several thousand others were left on low-revenue mostly rural sites but many thousands of recovered K2 and K6 boxes were sold off. Some kiosks have been converted to be to used as shower cubicles in private homes. In Kingston upon Thames a number of old K6 boxes have been utilised to form a work of art resembling a row of fallen dominoes. The KX100 PLUS, introduced in 1996 featured a domed roof reminiscent of the familiar K2 and K6. Subsequent designs have departed significantly from the old style red telephone boxes. Privatization (sometimes privatisation, denationalization, or, especially in India, disinvestment) is the process of transferring property, from public ownership to private ownership and/or transferring the management of a service or activity from the government to the private sector. ...
BT Group plc (which trades as just BT, and is commonly known by its former name, British Telecom) is the privatised former British state telecommunications operator. ...
Buckingham Palace, a Grade I listed building. ...
Kingston upon Thames, part of the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, is an ancient market town where Saxon kings were crowned, and is now a lively suburb of London. ...
A game of Dominoes Dominoes (or dominos) generally refers to the individual or collective gaming pieces making up a domino set (sometimes called a deck or pack) or to the games played with these pieces. ...
1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...
Several of these distinctive telephone boxes have been installed on the Norman campus of the University of Oklahoma, where they continue to serve their originally intended function. Bizzel Library, University of Oklahoma Norman is a major city located in Cleveland County, Oklahoma and is part of the Oklahoma City Metropolitan Area. ...
The University of Oklahoma (OU) is an institution of higher learning located in Oklahoma. ...
See also A classic red telephone box. ...
A payphone or pay phone is a public telephone, with payment by inserting money (usually coins) or a debit card (a special telephone card or a multi-purpose card) or credit card before a call is made. ...
20th century British police call box, similar to that used in Doctor Who A police box is a telephone kiosk or callbox for use by members of the police. ...
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References - Gavin Stamp - Telephone Boxes (Chatto & Windus, 1989) ISBN 070113366X
- Neil Johannessen - Telephone Boxes (Shire, 1994 - 1st Edn; 1999 - 2nd Edn) ISBN 0747804192
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