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Latitude: 55.9577 / 55°57'27"N
Longitude: -3.1998 / 3°11'59"W
OS Eastings: 325185
OS Northings: 674503
OS Grid: NT251745
Mapcode National: GBR 8MC.BT
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.TJG3
Plus Code: 9C7RXR52+33
Entry Name: K6 Telephone Kiosk, Great King Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: Great King Street, K6 Telephone Kiosk
Listing Date: 24 March 1998
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 392397
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB45480
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, Great King Street, K6 Telephone Kiosk
ID on this website: 200392397
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: City Centre
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Telephone booth
Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, 1935. Standard K6 telephone kiosk.
Part of the Second New Town A Group, representing a significant surviving part of one of the most important and best preserved examples of urban planning in Britain.
The K6 design is also known as the Jubilee Kiosk, commemorating the Silver Jubilee year of George V, during which the GPO set up a committee to redesign the telephone kiosk for mass production, with a Jubilee Concession Scheme providing one kiosk for each village with a Post Office. Scott was asked to design the new kiosk in March 1935, and after approval by the Royal Fine Art Commission, the K6 went into production in 1936. The same commission had, in 1924, decided on the colour red for the kiosk, being "easy to spot and giving an authoritative and official character" (Stamp, pp15-16).
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