If you are ever in Parliament Square in London, take a moment to
watch the crowds of tourists taking photographs. Along with the
historic buildings lining the square, including the Houses of
Parliament and Westminster Abbey, one of the smallest structures
receives equal attention from those photographers. Dwarfed by
the Government Offices on Great George Street stand half-a-dozen
red Telephone Boxes and, more often that not, tourists pause to
have their pictures taken standing alongside or inside one of
these kiosks. If the tourists visit one of the many souvenir
shops in London they will see all manner of Telephone Box gifts
and trinkets, from postcards to fridge magnets, and key-rings to
money boxes. What these tourists might not recognise is the
historic and cultural significance of the Telephone Box, nor may
they notice that just within this small group of kiosks there
are two different designs. In fact there were eight kiosk
variants introduced between 1921 and 1968, when the public
telephone network was