London icon: the famous K6 boxes
(Picture: PA Archive)One red emblem of British history — aside from buses and Clifford — is the iconic phone box. With mobile phones rendering them all but unnecessary, many of are now being repurposed to house small businesses across London.
Sir Giles Gilbert Scott’s K6 phone box design, which was voted best British design of all time in 2015, faced near-extinction after years of disuse, with many being replaced by the grey BT models.
