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Telephone Call Box, Kilmarnock

A Category B Listed Building in Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.6115 / 55°36'41"N

Longitude: -4.5004 / 4°30'1"W

OS Eastings: 242604

OS Northings: 638161

OS Grid: NS426381

Mapcode National: GBR 3G.MJ0Q

Mapcode Global: WH3Q9.V63Z

Plus Code: 9C7QJF6X+JR

Entry Name: Telephone Call Box, Kilmarnock

Listing Name: Kilmarnock Station, K6 Telephone Kiosk

Listing Date: 1 August 2002

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 396213

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB48743

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200396213

Location: Kilmarnock

County: East Ayrshire

Town: Kilmarnock

Electoral Ward: Kilmarnock West and Crosshouse

Traditional County: Ayrshire

Tagged with: Telephone booth

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Description

Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, 1935. Standard K6 telephone kiosk.

Statement of Interest

The K6 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 a 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 authorative and official character".

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