The red London telephone booth has become one of the representative signs of London and people often like to take photos with the red London telephone booth as much as they can when they see them. Today let me keep you informed of the origin of red London telephone booth.
The first public London telephone booth was published by the general post office in 1920 and can be simply called K1 as well as has been replaced by the later telephone booth. Besides, the only reserved telephone booth was located in the Trinity Market of Kinston-upon-Hull and did not have the same style as present telephone booth.
Afterwards, the general post office believed the design of K1 was quite old and invited three famous designers to change the appearance of K1 as well as finally the design of Giles Gilbert Scott was chosen. Therefore, this kind of the design of the telephone booth was called K2. However, the general post office also changed the design of K2. The outside of K2 was originally silver and the interior of K2 was turquoise. Eventually, the color of K2 was changed into red color and was formally used in London in 1926.
In 1928, the general post office found Giles Gilbert Scott and hoped that he can design a quite cheap telephone booth as well as the K3 appeared in 1929. But the general post office was still not satisfied with the design of K3 and changed K3 all the time as well as finally the K6 was designed in 1935 so as to celebrate George V Jubilee Silver. Furthermore, K6 also had a name called ‘‘ Jubilee kiosk’’.