Telephone Box: Kiosk for a public telephone designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott
A telephone box or phone booth is a public kiosk enclosing a payphone.
It is usually an item of street furniture, though some may be inside a building.
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United Kingdom telephone boxes were designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott and were common in the UK, Malta and Gibraltar. The colour red was chosen to make them easy to spot. Because of the growth of mobile phones, telephone boxes are steadily being removed.
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Other websites
- Gallery of UK telephone kiosks
- Picture guide to UK telephone boxes Archived 2008-05-31 at the Wayback Machine
- Telephone Box website Archived 2008-05-09 at the Wayback Machine
- Kiosk website
- Red telephone kiosks in Oxford, England Archived 2013-03-14 at the Wayback Machine
- Red phone boxes in the Welsh landscape Archived 2008-04-20 at the Wayback Machine
- Existing red phone boxes around the city of Liverpool
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