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Britian's Famous Red Telephone Boxes
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by clorenz1 | January 17, 2007 at 12:29 pm
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Retired does not mean completely gone, however. Although their numbers have dwindled over the years, there are still plenty of Sir Giles Gilbert Scott's iconic telephone boxes kicking around Old Blighty. And they're still the phone box of choice on the island of Malta.Scott's design was chosen in a 1924 competition and, although Scott himself originally recommended painting the boxes silver, the Post Office -- which ran Britain's phone service at the time -- chose red because it would make the booths easier to see.
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at 08:58 on February 17th, 2007
Those things used to be all over the country, and now only a handful remain in a few tourist spots. Also, the old double-decker buses are being taken out of circulation; they might all be gone already. Supposedly they were too expensive to maintain, but they had soul.
As for the old blue police call-boxes? Only on DOCTOR WHO.