Red 4 Heritage - dedicated to our little red gems.
And that's what R4H is about, our great red telephone and post boxes - our red heritage. Red 4 Heritage has been in existance for a while now (although I only recently decided to reinstate it!), and is a web site that can be used to find out more about red telephone and post boxes. We also like to hear your views and ideas about the situations in relation to our heritage, and we like to endorse campaigns to save our increasingly at-risk red heritage.
Many can still be found on our streets, in various conditions, and many in people's gardens - telephone boxes are used as showers, sheds, or just garden ornaments, and post boxes can still be used for their use, although domestically. However, as times move on, things change, sometimes for the worse, as this site points out - our red telephone and post boxes are under threat!
It's a shame to say that but, its true - you can find out more about this in the campaigns page.
Hopefully you'll enjoy using the site, and use it as a resource, submit your own bit of red heritage, and speak your mind in the forums - it's easy to join!
You can always contact R4H here - its great to hear from other interested people!
Hope you enjoy the site!
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
If you have a question thats not answered here, please get in contact, or if you have something to discuss with other people, visit the R4H forums!
Why the red phone box and post box?
It may sound odd, but the main reason is because they are something you can/could (in many places regarding the red phone kiosk) see on any ordinary street, and look so British and well-designed.
How famous is the red telephone box and post box?
Very famous, especially the red phone box, not just in the UK, but throughout the world. Many visitors to this country often have the famous photo outside/inside a red phone box - not to mention the postcards with them making a feature!
The red post box is famous too, not only for it's essential use for posting letters! But for how it looks, so much so, that the Post Office has said it's going to keep as many of their red boxes and carry out a maintenance programme on them, because they are an 'icon'! If only BT thought the same way...
Who designed the red phone box?
An English architect called Giles Gilbert Scott (1880 - 1960), born in Hampstead, London. He also designed Battersea Power Station, Liverpool Cathredrel, and many other buildings.
I've heard red phone boxes have been turned into showers, is this true?
Yes, they've been turned into giant goldfish bowls, and bars, but many people who have one in their garden commonly use it for storing garden tools or even restore them to their former glory by installing an original-style interior!
Installing a shower or turning one into a goldfish bowl are good ideas, as long as they don't spoil the character of the kiosk.
What about red phone boxes on our streets?
There are still thousands of red kiosks on our streets (mainly in London) and in other areas, and many are now Grade II listed buildings for their historic value and archictecture.
But many are under risk (including modern boxes), and are being removed by BT (who run the public telephone service in this country), mainly because of the take-up of mobile phones - but whether any red boxes should go is something the powers that be should consider...
To find out more about kiosks under threat, go to the R4H campaigns section.
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