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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Mark Brown North of England correspondent

Hull’s cream-coloured phone boxes given Grade II-listed status

A cream-coloured K8 phone box on Main Road, Wawne, near Hull
A cream-coloured K8 phone box on Main Road, Wawne, near Hull. Photograph: Alun Bull/Historic England/PA

Nine rare cream-coloured public phone boxes that are still in working order have been given heritage protection by the government.

The K8 phone boxes are all cream – rather than red – because they are in Hull, the only place in England where the local council ran the public telephone network.

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