Thames Town, an imitation English town on the outskirts of Shanghai, includes red telephone boxes. [68] First and foremost, a mirror is used for its reflection but it’s also an effective way to bounce light around or add space to a room that’s on the modest size. If you happen to be passing Greenwood Road in Meols, Wirral, and notice a gang of 40 to 60-year-olds loitering outside a telephone box, don't be alarmed. It'll no doubt be a gathering of music fans, some of who may well have travelled thousands of miles to be there. Sennett, Richard (2019). Construir y habitar: ética para la ciudad (in Spanish) (1sted.). Barcelona: Anagrama. p.151. ISBN 978-84-339-6433-5.

The telephone box is as much an icon to Britain as the Houses of Parliament. But the history of these boxes, or kiosks to give them their proper name, is much more interesting than the casual observer may think.During 2009 a K6 in the village of Westbury-sub-Mendip in Somerset was converted into a library or book exchange replacing the services of the mobile library which no longer visits the village. [45] [46] [47] Similar libraries now exist in the villages of North Cadbury in Somerset, Great Budworth in Cheshire, [48] Little Shelford and Upwood in Cambridgeshire and some 150 other locations. [49] One such box was donated by Cumbernauld's town twinning association and installed as a library in Bron, France. [50] The Telephone Box Book Exchange in Cutnall Green opened in June 2016. The K6, which was designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of King George V's coronation in 1935, is largely identified as THE red telephone box. 60,000 examples of these were installed across Britain, which is why the K6 has come to represent what many regard as the typical red phone box. The area was seriously flooded recently and it is an area that some people do not have telephones in their homes or a mobile phone.

Yellow phone box on St Aubin's Promenade in St Aubin, Jersey, Channel Islands". Getty Images . Retrieved 11 May 2023. They petitioned the company for the box's return on the basis it had become an important monument to British electronic music. Due to the protestations of fans, the phone box was returned to its original spot two-months later. From October 2014, several of London's disused K6 telephone boxes have been painted green and converted to free mobile phone chargers named Solarboxes. [60] They have been considered an outdoor kiosk alternative to indoor chargers such as the Chargebox. Series 1, Episode 4". I Never Knew That About Britain. Season 1. Episode 4. 24 March 2014. ITV. Archived from the original on 15 April 2014 . Retrieved 14 April 2014.In Lake Havasu City, Arizona, a few K6s arrived when the old London Bridge was preserved there. As they are in the US, and not under British restriction, they are fully functional, but with updated electronics to make them code compliant. Kiosks installed in Kingston upon Hull were not fitted with a crown, as those kiosks were installed by the Hull Corporation (later Hull City Council, then Kingston Communications). All boxes in Hull were also painted in cream. The Telephone Box War – Wizard of New Zealand". 1 February 2004. Archived from the original on 1 February 2004 . Retrieved 31 March 2018. {{ cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown ( link)