If we travel in England, especially in London, you will be deeply attracted by the bright and brilliant architecture—red London telephone booths on the streets or roads of London city. Besides, red London telephone booths possess the grand and great history of more than 100 years and they proved and witnessed the luminous history and huge changes of London as well. When the communication technology was not very advanced and excellent, the signal of long-distance calls was seriously and strictly damaged and destroyed, so people usually needed to yell and speak very loudly in order to ensure the fact that other persons can clearly catch you. However, this can be very rude seen from the eyes of British people, thus, they may go to the outside and use the public telephone booths to speak to the one he or she would like to talk with, which will not effect their own families and neighbors.
Moreover, the Giles Gilbert Scott was the most famous and well-known architect in England, and the Liverpool Cathedral and the Waterloo Bridge as well as the Battersea Power Station were totally designed and manufactured by him. Meanwhile, he was also the designer of classical red telephone booths in London.
Furthermore, the earliest telephone booths in England were not the red color and also were not the modern shape and appearance, to be honest, they went through lots of evolutions in various versions. Also, the history of public telephones in England can be dated back to 1880s, and the first telephone booth did not occur on the streets of London until 1920, and its code was K1, and its meaning was Kiosk No.1, which was equipped on the top of decorated golden towers, and the words “Telephone” was written on its surface, and the door and window of it was red. After that, different versions of telephone booths in London were all named with the name whose initial was “K”. At present, there are lots of the K6 telephone booths on the streets of London, and the K2 was also regarded as the classical one among all the telephone booths on the streets of London.
In addition, we really hope that all the important information mentioned above can be useful and helpful to all of you.