a “red box” was a device that would simulate coins being dropped in to a pay-phone, hence free phone calls for many people until the phone systems changed. the most popular device to modify ...

Red telephone boxes are scattered across the country, with many being transformed into anything from food vendors to libraries. Since 2008, BT’s Adopt a Kiosk scheme has allowed communities to ...

Architect Sir Giles Gilbert Scott designed the famous red telephone box - as well as Liverpool Cathedral. He also helped to design Battersea Power Station Visit any UK souvenir shop and chances ...

A red phone box has been removed from Ilkeston market place and is unlikely to be returned. Residents have said they were upset to see the phone box uprooted and loaded onto the back of a lorry on ...

Rudolph is made from painted and stuffed canvas, copper plumbing pipe wrapped in insulation, faux fur timber and plywood A disused red phone box has been transformed for the 10th year running to ...

A RED phone box which was lovingly restored by an artist has been destroyed for a second time. Vandals smashed the glass on the historic phone box, in Alexandra Street, Southend, and ripped out a ...

My colleague recently alerted me to a telephone box graveyard - a place in North Yorkshire where decommissioned red telephone boxes end up. The iconic boxes are renovated and bought, at ...

AN iconic red telephone box has gone on the market in Bournemouth town centre. The bright red telephone box is on the market at a starting price of £15,000 and is being sold through auction by BIDX1.

An iconic red telephone box could be used to house a bottle filler for water in a north Norfolk town. Aylsham Town Council has applied to Broadland District Council to install it outside the town ...

“We have two of the old BT red phone boxes and although they are not well used, we wanted to keep them. “Since BT introduced the scheme where local communities could adopt a phone box for ...