RED BOX

This red telephone box is miles from the nearest town, hiding away on a piece of isolated North Yorkshire Moorland. It does what it says on the tin - it can be seen - and so pleased that it still exists in the mobile world of today. Allows the sheep to still phone ewe.

A telephone kiosk for a public telephone was first designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott and is a familiar sight on the streets of the United Kingdom, Malta, Bermuda and Gibraltar.

The first standard public telephone kiosk introduced by the United Kingdom Post Office was produced in 1920, but it was not red. The red colour, chosen as the result of a competition in 1924, was designed to make them easy to spot.

Kingston upon Hull, not far from here, was the only area of the UK not under the Post Office monopoly and their telephone boxes were painted cream and had the crown omitted.

Guernsey Telecoms painted their kiosks yellow with white window frames, but they were repainted in blue when the company was sold to Cable and Wireless in 2002.