Midhurst - Red telephone box - Telephone kiosk - Public telephone kiosk turned into a travel information box - Decommissioned phone box converted to housing Travel Informations - Information point - Breskur símaklefi - Breskt símabox - Enskur rauður símaklegi - Símaklefi breytt í upplýsingamiðstöð fyrir ferðalanga. K6, the most common red telephone box model. Save our red telephone boxes'. A new campaign is being launched to save iconic red telephone boxes in towns and villages throughout Sussex.

Members of Sussex Heritage Trust say that the much-loved K6 public phone box - a distinctive feature of the British landscape for decades - is now increasingly under threat. Some have been removed altogether and others are at risk of removal because of mobile phone technology, vandalism and neglect. Last year the trust carried out a survey into the survival and condition of red BT K6 telephone boxes in East and West Sussex. The results showed that our telephone boxes are ‘in slow decline and at worst critically at risk - or had already been removed from their parishes.’ Now the trust has produced a guide on how people can ensure their survival by ‘adopting’ them. CEO of Sussex Associations of Local Councils Trevor Leggo said: “I urge all communities in Sussex to preserve their K6 using imagination to bring them into use in different ways.” Former BT red phone boxes in Storrington and Steyning are already ahead of the game and are now proving life-savers after being fitted with defibrillators. Another in North Stoke, near Arundel, has been turned into an information point for walkers in the South Downs. See more: [ Ссылка ]

he second lives of England's iconic red phone booths. See more: [ Ссылка ]

Despite a reduction in their numbers in recent years, the traditional British red telephone kiosk can still be seen in many places throughout the UK, and in current or former British colonies around the world. The colour red was chosen to make them easy to spot. From 1926 onwards, the fascias of the kiosks were emblazoned with a prominent crown, representing the British government. In 1935 the K6 (kiosk number six) was designed to commemorate the silver jubilee of King George V. It was consequently sometimes known as the "Jubilee" kiosk. It went into production in 1936. The K6 was the first red telephone kiosk to be extensively used outside London, and many thousands were deployed in virtually every town and city, replacing most of the existing kiosks and establishing thousands of new sites. In 1935 there had been 19,000 public telephones in the UK: by 1940, thanks to the K6, there were 35,000. The design was again by Scott, and was essentially a smaller and more streamlined version of the K2, intended to be produced at a considerably cheaper cost, and to occupy less pavement space. The principal differences between the two designs were:
Size. The K6 was 8 feet 3 inches (2.51 m) tall and weighed 13.5 cwt (0.69 tonnes). This compared with 9 feet 3 inches (2.82 m) and 1.25 tons (1.27 tonnes) for the K2.
Elements of the design were simplified and streamlined, in keeping with the "moderne" aesthetics of the 1930s. The Grecian fluting was removed from the door and window surrounds, and the previously separate pediment and frieze were merged.
The Crown motif (see below), which had previously been pierced through the ironwork to give ventilation, was now embossed in bas-relief. A new, separate ventilation slot was provided.
A new glazing pattern was introduced. The door and two glazed sides of the K2 each had 18 equal-sized panes of glass arranged in 6 rows of 3. In the K6 the number of rows was increased to 8, and the central column of panes was made considerably wider than those to either side. This improved visibility, and gave a more horizontal appearance to the windows, again in keeping with "moderne" principles.
The K6 has since become a British icon, but it was not universally loved at the start. The red colour caused particular local difficulties and there were many requests for less visible colours. The Post Office was forced into allowing a less strident grey with red glazing bars scheme for areas of natural and architectural beauty. Ironically, some of these areas that have preserved their telephone boxes have now painted them red. The paint colour used most widely today is known as "currant red" and is defined by a British Standard, BS381C-Red539. This slightly brighter red was introduced with the K8 model in 1968, but went on to be used across the estate on previous models too. Hence, for complete historical accuracy, any kiosks in pre-1968 settings should really be painted in the previous, and slightly darker, shade BS381C-Red538. See more: [ Ссылка ]

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