Red telephone box

The red telephone box was designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott and it’s one of the famous icons of London city traditions.

.he United Kingdom postal service introduced the first phone boxes in 1920, after many difficulties to obtain the acceptation of London citizens because it was hard to make people think that it was better to have an ungly box on the street rather than the lack of possibility to use a public phone in their neirborhood.

Various groups try to find a better design for a standard British phone bm, ox, But the Birmingham Civic ºSociety banded together with architect and planning groups and put pressure on the postal service.

Three famous architects were invited to present their designs at a contest but in finally the Royal Fine Arts Commission served as judge for the contest and picked Giles Gilbert Scott's design as the winner.

The traditional British red telephone box can still be seen in many places throughout the UK. The colour red was chosen to make them easy to see. These wonderful British icons are disappearing everyday as they are either removed or replaced with more modern telephone boxes.

In my opinion, I think that if the government removed the phone box they destroyed one of the cultural British characteristics of England.

Everybody knows the typical thing that tourists usually does when they travel to London it’s the Photo next to red phone box that appear on a lot of postcards, advertisements, etc.

This situation happens too with the traditional red buses.

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