Telephone box

Two red telephone boxes

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.

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.

A Post box in a telephone box in Warrington, Cheshire, England.

K2 red telephone boxes behind Enzo Plazzotta's bronze, "Young Dancer", on Broad Street, Covent Garden, London

Telephone Box Media

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  Classic style mid-20th century US telephone booth in La Crescent, Minnesota, May 2012

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  Public telephone room, Miami Florida, 1925, with a row of telephone booths seen along the back wall. Customers would request a call at the front desk; when the connection was made the customer would be directed to go to one of the booths for the call.

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  A Hull K6 telephone box

• Telephone booth in Tokyo, 2021

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  Mesta (Chios) telephone booth

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  A vandalized KX+ phone box in London

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  Booth in an office, for using one's own phone.

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  Telephone booth in Hervanta, Tampere, Finland in 2006

Related pages

• Payphone

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