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K6: Chapmanslade - OK01E0
A small cache located within the iconic red telephone box designed by G.G. Scott.
Właściciel: tsiolkovsky
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Wysokość: 127 m n.p.m.
 Województwo: Wielka Brytania > Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Bristol/Bath area
Typ skrzynki: Tradycyjna
Wielkość: Mała
Status: Gotowa do szukania
Data ukrycia: 18-10-2010
Data utworzenia: 18-10-2010
Data opublikowania: 18-10-2010
Ostatnio zmodyfikowano: 18-10-2010
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Around the clock  Winter safe  Listed on Opencaching only  All year round Access 

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The K6, or kiosk number six, was designed in 1935 to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of king George V. It was the first telephone kiosk to go national, for up until then most kiosks were based in the London metropolitan area; and the K6 eventually came to be the dominant kiosk. So it is hardly surprising that it has become something of an iconic image when thinking of British street furniture.


Like most icons, it wasn't at first that well liked. Most communities hated the bright red colour of the K6, saying that it stuck out far too much; which lead to the General Post Office eventually allowing an alternative colour scheme of grey to be used instead. Ironicially, many of these grey K6s were eventually painted red as their community.

These days with almost universal mobile phone ownership, the requirement for public telephones has declined sharply and the K6 is now a highly endangered species. BT certainly doesn't want to have to look after them, and many are being uprooted are scrapped, or being sold to local communities who wish to retain them within their environment.

The K6, we salute you.
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