Telephone box

A telephone box or phone booth is a public kiosk enclosing a payphone. It is usually an item of street furniture, though some may be inside a building.

United Kingdom telephone boxes were designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott and were common in the UK, Malta and Gibraltar. The colour red was chosen to make them easy to spot. Because of the growth of mobile phones, telephone boxes are steadily being removed.


Related pages
 Payphone

References

Other websites
 Gallery of UK telephone kiosks
 Picture guide to UK telephone boxes 
 Telephone Box website 
 Kiosk website
 Red telephone kiosks in Oxford, England 
 Red phone boxes in the Welsh landscape 
 Existing red phone boxes around the city of Liverpool

Category:Street furniture
Category:Telephone