and then here today is where they go when their life is over,
the red telephone box graveyard in Merstham, Surrey, which is just outside of London, is the home of Unicorn Restorations, who proudly restore these iconic boxes with staff spending up to 30 hours stripping each old kiosk, repainting them in the identical shades of red once stipulated by the General Post Office and putting in new glass to complete the look,
Image: Ian T (@Officially_IT)) there were once around 73,000 red phone boxes dotted around the country at their peak, their numbers have since dwindled to around 21,000, the company has in the past restored phone boxes that are now located in some of London’s most popular landmarks, including Trafalgar Square, Piccadilly Circus, The Tower of London and Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, also they have completed work for television and film productions including Harry Potter, Paddington and the John Lewis Christmas advertisements,
(Image: Ian T (@Officially_IT)) and among their prestigious customers, you can also find BT, The Corporation of London, and English Heritage, so the burning question, how much if you want to have your own personal red telephone box? Once rejuvenated, they sell for a variety of prices ranging from just under £4,000 to as much as £20,000, with the price being higher for the older designs, these include the three classic models of red telephone kiosk: the K2, the K6 and the K8, the K6, which was designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of King George V's coronation in 1935, is largely identified as the red telephone box that most people think of, 60,000 examples of these were installed across Britain, which is why the K6 has come to represent what many regard as the typical red phone box, for further details here is the Unicorn Restorations web site, how strange I mention telephone boxes yesterday and I find this site today!
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