The Economist

British telephone boxes are getting a facelift, of sorts

Few things are as quintessentially British as a red telephone box. In Covent Garden, in central London, tourists queue to pose for selfies with the analogue receivers. But locals are more familiar ...

It may look like an ordinary phone box from a distance but up close it is anything but

Located in Meols, Wirral, is an unassuming red phone box that stands proudly at the junction of Greenwood Road and Birkenhead Road. The history of what is now a musical monument, is linked to the ...
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‘Wandering Turnip’ YouTube channel puts Hull’s cream telephone boxes in the spotlight

"Why are all the phone boxes cream in Hull?" That was the burning question that David Burnip, aka the Wandering Turnip, decided to answer on a history tour of the city’s iconic phone boxes. Burnip, ...