Art Archives - The K6 Project

Hello and welcome to the K6 project, a personal adventure to travel the length and breadth of the UK finding old red telephone boxes, the k6 used to be everywhere before mobile telephones became the prevalent form of telecommunication.

Finding working red phone boxes are a challenge. As BT battles to control its costs the boxes are quickly disappearing from public sight.

This British icon has become history as public phone boxes disappear, but there is a future as they get adopted and repurposed.

I want to find out what those new purposes are, who adopted the boxes and what stories lay behind its usage (both previously and today)

I have been visiting local telephone boxes and have found may varying usages from defibrillator site, recycling centres, local book exchanges or local village guide booths.

In rural Britain the usage of the boxes appear ‘local centric’ and its these that I wish to explore in greater detail, both here online, as a database and social media for a more personal look at the box its use and location.

The K6 Project

Category: Art

Great Eccleston, Lancs, PR3 0YB

Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, LA14 1LL (Kiosk2)

Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, LA14 1LL (Kiosk 1)

North Runcton, Norfolk, PE33 0RB

Strathkinness, Fife, KY16 9XR

Craigrothie, Fife, KY15 5QB

St Andrews, Fife, KY16 9AJ

Cellardyke, Fife, KY10 3BS

Anstruther Easter, Fife, KY10 3BG

Lower Largo, Fife, KY8 6BS

Burntisland, Fife, KY3 9AA

Maidens, South Ayrshire, KA26 9NJ

Porlock, Somerset, TA24 8QD

Shepton Mallet, Somerset, BA4 5BU

Stanton Prior, Somerset, BA2 9HT

Otley, West Yorkshire, LS21 3AQ (Kiosk 2 right)

Batley, West Yorkshire, WF17 5DA (Kiosk 2 right)

Batley, West Yorkshire, WF17 5DA (Kiosk 1 left)

Heckmondwike, West Yorkshire, WF16 0HY (Kiosk 1 left)

Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, WF13 4HD (Kiosk 2 right)

Horbury, West Yorkshire, WF4 5PS

Wooldale, West Yorkshire, HD9 1QG

Westbury, Wiltshire, BA13 3DF

Barnsley, South Yorkshire, S70 2AF

Ardarroch, Highland, IV54 8XA

Strone, Argyll and Bute, PA23 8TG

Framlingham, Suffolk, IP13 9BA

Clare, Suffolk, CO10 8NJ

Redhill, Hertfordshire, SG9 0TQ

Treorchy, Rhondda Cynon Taf, CF42 6AN

Hilmarton, Wiltshire, SN11 8SE

Ashton Keynes, Wiltshire, SN6 6NL

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Introduction

Boxes visited

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Phone Boxes Visited by Month / Year