SAVE THE BRITISH PHONE BOX.

This article tells about British Phone Box. Over the years the red telephone box has become a symbol of British life: it is loved both by tourists and by collectors from all over the world. The first red telephone box the K1 appeared in 1920. In 1924 the Post Office held a competition to design a replacement for it. It was won by the famous architect Sir Giles Gilbert Scott and over the next few years Sir Giles produced more models like K2, K3 and K5, but the K6 was created for King George in 1935, and today there are K6. These famous red phone boxes are disappearing from our streets but during the last five years calls from pay phone have dropped. The British Telecom realise that people love the K6 and it has organised some original projects to save it. More than 1,500 boxes have been transformed into art galleries, information centres, public libraries, showers and even toilets. The K6 is also symbol of London and this summer at least 80 kiosks in the capital underwent a make-over. The designs included a sofa, a "Big Ben" phone box and a wholly knitted kiosk. They were displayed on the streets of London for one month and then auctioned of at Sotheby's.