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.
A telephone booth, phone booth, telephone kiosk, telephone call box, telephone box or public call box is a structure furnished with a payphone and designed for a telephone user's convenience; typicall
Red telephone box
…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…
Replicas of British red telephone boxes in South Lake, Pasadena, California
Classic style mid-20th century American telephone booth in La Crescent, Minnesota, May 2012
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.