Red telephone box
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The red telephone box is a telephone kiosk for a public telephone designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, the architect responsible for famous sites like Liverpool Cathedral and Battersea Power Station.
An example of a K6, the most common red telephone box model, photographed in London in 2012.
K1 Telephone Kiosk at Bembridge
Prototype K2 at Burlington House (home of the Royal Academy of Arts) in London
The dome of Sir John Soane's family mausoleum in St Pancras Old Churchyard, London, may have been an inspiration for the K2's design.
Wall box
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Wall boxes are a type of post box or letter box found in many countries including France, the United Kingdom, the Commonwealth of Nations, Crown dependencies and Ireland. They differ from pillar boxes
A British wall box set into a brick pillar, at the Amberley Working Museum.
The tablet holder box and the Chubb lock are clearly visible as a postman clears mail from an 'A' size wall box in Deal, Kent
This rare Victorian 2nd National standard wall box near Andover in Hampshire has a large hood and a pedimented top to keep the rain out
The only known example of the large 2nd National Standard wall box is at Boydon End, Wickhambrook, in Suffolk