Thames Town, an imitation English town on the outskirts of Shanghai, includes red telephone boxes. [68] They petitioned the company for the box's return on the basis it had become an important monument to British electronic music. Due to the protestations of fans, the phone box was returned to its original spot two-months later. adopted red phone box fitted with defibrillator to help save lives". bt.com. Archived from the original on 12 April 2020 . Retrieved 31 March 2018.

The organisers invited entries from three respected architects and, along with the designs from the Post Office and from The Birmingham Civic Society, the Fine Arts Commission judged the competition and selected the design submitted by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott. [13] The invitation had come at the time when Scott had been made a trustee of Sir John Soane's Museum: his design for the competition was in the classical style, but topped with a dome reminiscent of those designed by Soane for his own family mausoleum in St Pancras Old Churchyard, and for the mausoleum for Sir Francis Bourgeois at Dulwich Picture Gallery, both in London. [14] However, Gavin Stamp thinks it "unlikely" that Scott was directly inspired by either of these precedents, arguing instead that "a dome above segmental curves is, in fact, a logical solution to the geometrical problem of designing a sculptural termination to a square pillar when a flat top is not suitable". [15] Sadly, those numbers started to dwindle shortly after, with just 21,000 reported to be left standing today. Insley, Jill (26 April 2012). "BT sells off phone boxes as demand declines". The Guardian . Retrieved 31 January 2014.Calls from Island phone boxes to be free". Jersey Evening Post. 8 April 2015 . Retrieved 11 May 2023. OMD founding members Paul Humphreys (left) and Andy McCluskey inside the red phone box monument to the band on Greenwood Road in Wirral (Image: Andy Barrett and Steph McCahill) Yellow phone box on St Aubin's Promenade in St Aubin, Jersey, Channel Islands". Getty Images . Retrieved 11 May 2023. Chances are, even if you're not a fan of OMD but are of a certain age, you will be familiar with their single Enola Gay which reached number eight in the UK charts in 1980, but went to number one in Italy, Spain and Portugal. The band further immortalized the phone in their second single Red Frame/White Light, which included the box’s phone number, 632 3003, as part of the lyrics.

Jersey Telecom used locally made kiosks, painted in just yellow, or cream and yellow. [70] Isle of Man [ edit ] It was here that two of OMD's founding members, Andy McCluskey and Paul Humphreys would make and receive calls to their manager. It also happens to be the place where they found out their third single, Messages, had gone into the Top 20 of the UK music charts.During 2009 a K6 in the village of Westbury-sub-Mendip in Somerset was converted into a library or book exchange replacing the services of the mobile library which no longer visits the village. [45] [46] [47] Similar libraries now exist in the villages of North Cadbury in Somerset, Great Budworth in Cheshire, [48] Little Shelford and Upwood in Cambridgeshire and some 150 other locations. [49] One such box was donated by Cumbernauld's town twinning association and installed as a library in Bron, France. [50] The Telephone Box Book Exchange in Cutnall Green opened in June 2016. The red telephone box was the result of a competition in 1924 to design a kiosk that would be acceptable to the London Metropolitan Boroughs which had hitherto resisted the Post Office's effort to erect K1 kiosks on their streets. [11] Usage elsewhere [ edit ] Imitation British-style box used as the entrance to a jazz club in Havana, Cuba