Talk:Red telephone box

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A picture of "Out of Order", the tipped domino like red boxes in Kingston would be nice. Jooler 11:52, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

I'm not sure if the T&C of the folling site allows use on Wikipedia.

The phoney box was on dragons den television programme the full story at www.thephoneybox.com full size lightweight reproductions of the classic red telephone box —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.31.35.62 (talk) 08:14, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Blackpool Box's

Most of the Telephone in Blackpool and it's surrounding areas are Red Telephone Box's (abeit, with the original Telephone Equipment Removed) should we put something about this in the article? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.93.21.105 (talk • contribs)

Probably more appropriate in the Blackpool article. For the purposes of the phone box article, we wouldn't want an enormous, low-value list of the places they exist, unless there were far fewer of them, and I don't see much point in listing just a selection of those places either. The boxes remain, or were replaced, in places where they are visually appealing or in-keeping; enough said? – Kieran T (talk | contribs) 10:47, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Crown

The Scottish Crown was (according to the National Archives) brought into use as a symbol in 1952, at the same time as the (purely symbolic and abstract) 'Tudor' crown was changed for the (English) St. Edward's Crown elsewhere. It took several years for the changes to the crowns to come into place, and there were problems into the 1960s with Government departments not being used to the idea of having a different royal symbol in Scotland.

The Scottish Crown is for use "where the Scottish Crown is more appropriate than the English St Edward's Crown" - like Scottish flags, coats of arms, police emblems, and the Scottish part of government departments such as the Department for Transport and the Royal Mail.

It didn't necessarily have anything to do with blowing up pillar boxes, and wasn't a percularly Royal Mail thing.

82.153.111.141 23:18, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sir John Soane

I understood that Scott based his phone box design on Sir John Soane's tomb? Should this not be mentioned?81.19.57.146 16:12, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Y Done Zir 15:02, 31 October 2007 (UTC)