'Graveyard' of iconic British red telephone boxes hidden in UK
dailyrecord.co.ukLocated nearby to a railway track lies an astonishing site in the form of the nation's largest 'telephone box graveyard'. After once being a famous aspect of British culture, the red telephone box has become at risk of being an endangered species.
They became a common site on British street corners in the 20th century but the introduction of mobile phones led to its decline from the 1980s onwards, Kent Live reports.Following decades of abandonment, with many boxes being left in a dire state, action is being taken by a local restoration company that set up the UK's largest 'telephone box graveyard' located just half an hour from Kent in Merstham.Unicorn Restorations restore these iconic boxes back to their former glory following a duration of them rusting away.Staff spend up to 30 hours stripping each old kiosk, repainting them in the identical shades of red once stipulated by the General Post Office and putting in new glass to complete the look, at the site just outside Redhill.Once rejuvenated, they sell for a variety of prices ranging from just under £4,000 to as much as £20,000, with the price being higher for the older designs.These include the three classic models of red telephone kiosk: the K2, the K6 and the K8.The K6, which was designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of King George V's coronation in 1935, is largely identified as THE red telephone box.
60,000 examples of these were installed across the country, which is why the K6 has come to represent what many regard as the typical red phone box.The K2 is deemed as the original phone box having been created in 1926, while the K8 was introduced in 1968 and was a radical change to suit the mood of the Sixties in a more futuristic
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