Three K6 BT telephone Booths in Bridge Street, Warrington near Phones 4U Shop, UK _Pedestrian diversion sign.
BT sells off phone boxes as demand declines BT is selling 60 'K6' red telephone boxes, a snip at just £1,950 plus VAT and delivery. Red telephone kiosks have been used as libraries, sculptures, stores for life saving medical equipment and have even provided a storyline for The Archers. But now you can buy one of your own, as BT has decided to sell off dfor the first time in more than 25 years The K6 was introduced in 1936 to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of the coronation of King George V, and by the end of production in 1968 there were nearly 70,000 nationwide. It was designed by architect Sir Giles Scott who was also responsible for Battersea power station, the building that now houses London's Tate Modern, and Liverpool's Anglican Cathedral. Although the Royal Fine Arts Commission endorsed Post Office red as the standard colour, Scott disapproved, recommending that the outside of urban boxes be painted silver and rural kiosks dove-grey. BT sold off thousands of the boxes to private buyers in the mid-1980s, and since 2008 has sold a further 1,800 to local communities for just £1 each through its Adopt a Kiosk scheme. This has seen boxes transformed into art galleries, public libraries, exhibitions, information centres and fitted with life-saving defibrillation machines, while villagers from Shepreth in Cambridgeshire even turned their kiosk into a one-night-only pub named the Dog and Bone.
Size: 5120px × 3413px
Location: Warrington, Cheshire, UK
Photo credit: © Cernan Elias / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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