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Latitude: 55.9903 / 55°59'25"N
Longitude: -3.3969 / 3°23'48"W
OS Eastings: 312952
OS Northings: 678363
OS Grid: NT129783
Mapcode National: GBR 20.VQS7
Mapcode Global: WH6S9.SPLM
Plus Code: 9C7RXJR3+46
Entry Name: Telephone Call Box, High Street, South Queensferry
Listing Name: High Street (In Front of Tolbooth), K6 Telephone Kiosk
Listing Date: 5 March 1991
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 386339
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB40413
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: South Queensferry, High Street, Telephone Call Box
ID on this website: 200386339
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Almond
Traditional County: West Lothian
Tagged with: Telephone booth
Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, 1935. Standard K6 telephone kiosk.
The siting of the K6 telephone kiosk in Queensferry is very appropriate: it is situated in the shadow of the Jubilee Clock, gifted to the town on the occasion of Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee, and the K6 design commemorated the Silver Jubilee of George V. 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, pp.15-16).
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