From its pillar box red, cast iron exterior and domed roof to its crown insignia and paneled windows, the red British telephone booth is a universally recognized icon. Giles Gilbert Scott’s ...

I read with interest your article (August 10) asking whether a red telephone box in North Stoke, a hamlet near Amberley in West Sussex, was the… ...

There were originally about 60,000 red phone booths, introduced in the 1920s by architect Giles Gilbert Scott, but the number is closer to 10,000 today after the introduction of smartphones.

The original red telephone box, so beloved of tourists to the UK, is to be given added protection, the government has announced. “The red telephone box is an internationally famous British icon and I ...