20-07-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

London Underground station telephone kiosks granted heritage protection

Four rare surviving K8 phone boxes that can be found on the London Underground have been given heritage listing protection.
High Street Kensington (c) Historic England Archive
The K8 phone box was designed in the middle of the 1960s as a modern replacement for the classic K6 phone box, which had been designed three decades earlier by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott. Although around 11,000 of them were built, just 54 survive as they never really gained public approval in the same way as the 1930s phone b
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