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== Usage elsewhere == [[File:jazzclub.jpg|thumb|upright|Imitation British-style box used as the entrance to a jazz club in [[Havana]], Cuba]] Several of these distinctive telephone boxes have been installed on the [[Norman, Oklahoma]], campus of the [[University of Oklahoma]], where they continue to serve their originally intended function. Elsewhere in the United States, a few have also been installed in downtown [[Glenview, Cook County, Illinois|Glenview, Illinois]], and [[Glencoe, Illinois]]. There is also one outside the [[Embassy of the United Kingdom, Washington, D.C.|British Embassy in Washington, D.C.]] A red telephone box can also be found on the Courthouse Square in [[Oxford, Mississippi]]. Two are in use in [[Tennessee]]: one is on the square in [[Collierville, Tennessee]], and the other is located next to Pepper Palace in The Village Shops shopping centre in [[Gatlinburg, Tennessee]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thevillageshops.com/pepperpalace.html |title=The Village Shops |publisher=The Village Shops |access-date=29 November 2013}}</ref> A telephone box sits outside The Poppy & Parliament restaurant on the courthouse square in [[Huntsville, Alabama]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.al.com/business/2020/07/british-pub-food-gourmet-store-coming-to-downtown-huntsville.html |title=British pub food, gourmet store coming to downtown Huntsville |website=Al.com |date=27 July 2020 |access-date=2 July 2023}}</ref> [[File:British Telephones and Mailbox - panoramio.jpg|thumb|upright|left|Two K6 telephone boxes and a [[pillar box]] at the [[United Kingdom Pavilion at Epcot]] in [[Walt Disney World Resort]].]] A red telephone box is in use in the student centre of the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]]. In addition, there is a red telephone box outside the town building (town hall/police station/post office) in the tiny mountain town of [[Rowe, Massachusetts]], which is an original installation dating back to when the town of Rowe first got telephone service. Two red telephone boxes are on display at the [[World Showcase]] area of Disney's [[Epcot]] in [[Orlando, Florida]], one located in the United Kingdom area and one in the Canada area. One is on display at English Gardens – A Place for Weddings in Winter Park close to downtown Orlando. An original K6 can also be found outside the Allied Building in Treasure Island, Florida. There are also a few red boxes at the Ellenton Outlet Mall, just off I-75, near Bradenton, Florida. These still have their original STD code cards in place and have working US [[payphone]] equipment. There is a red telephone box in Westminster, Maryland on the corner of West Main Street and Rt. 27 outside Johanson's Dining House.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.johanssonsdininghouse.com/history/index.asp |title=Johansson's Dining House • History |website=Johanssonsdininghouse.com |access-date=17 January 2008 |archive-date=14 September 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070914225325/http://www.johanssonsdininghouse.com/history/index.asp |url-status=dead }}</ref> In [[Lake Havasu City]], Arizona, a few K6s arrived when the old [[London Bridge]] was preserved there. [[File:Cabine téléphonique décorée.jpg|thumb|upright|K6 with a [[Union Jack]] paint scheme in Corrèze, France]] Australia and New Zealand each had their own design of red telephone box, and some examples have been preserved in sensitive or historic sites. A brief and colourful campaign was run to "save" the red telephone box in New Zealand by the [[Wizard of New Zealand]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wizard.gen.nz/phonebox.html|title=The Telephone Box War – Wizard of New Zealand|date=1 February 2004|access-date=31 March 2018|url-status=bot: unknown|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040201205336/http://www.wizard.gen.nz/phonebox.html|archive-date=1 February 2004}}</ref> Many K3 phone boxes survive in Portugal, where they were exported by the [[Anglo-Portuguese Telephone Company]], and where the climate was less harmful to their concrete fabric than in Britain.<ref>Stamp 1989, p. 12.</ref> They are a common sight, for example, in the city of [[Porto]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.travelblog.org/Photos/6134063 |title=Phone Box in Porto | Photo |website=Travelblog.org |date=28 March 2011}}</ref> British K6 phone boxes are to be found, painted green, in the centre of [[Kinsale]], a historic town in [[County Cork]] in the Republic of Ireland. Red telephone boxes are also found across [[Malta]], some islands of the [[West Indies]] such as [[Antigua]], [[Barbados]], as well as in [[Cyprus]], showing that the colonial influence is still present. In France, boxes can also be found on the border of Saint-Maurice (rue de Gravelle), close to Paris, and in the centre of the town of Chinon.<ref>{{cite web|author=Chinon |url=https://www.google.com/maps?q=chinon&hl=en&ll=47.165267,0.243931&spn=0.024392,0.131493&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=62.99906,134.648437&hnear=Chinon,+Indre-et-Loire,+Centre,+France&t=m&z=14&layer=c&cbll=47.165243,0.243918&panoid=Vf6QSStVhvQvXwezek1eww&cbp=11,253.37,,0,11.57 |title=chinon – Google Maps |website=Goo.gl |date=1 January 1970 |access-date=29 November 2013}}</ref> In Germany, some stands in the towns of Bad Münstereifel, Bielefeld and Eppingen. [[Thames Town]], an imitation English town on the outskirts of [[Shanghai]], China includes red telephone boxes.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Sennett |first1=Richard |title=Construir y habitar: ética para la ciudad |date=2019 |publisher=Anagrama |location=Barcelona |isbn=978-84-339-6433-5 |page=151 |edition=1st |language=es}}</ref> In 2008, K6 telephone boxes were imported from the United Kingdom to the Israeli city of [[Petah Tikva]] and installed on its main street, Haim Ozer.<ref>{{cite news |title=Petah Tikva Imports Famed U.K. Red Phone Boxes for City Center |url=https://www.haaretz.com/2009-02-26/ty-article/petah-tikva-imports-famed-u-k-red-phone-boxes-for-city-center/0000017f-e0ce-d38f-a57f-e6de48a00000 |access-date=17 January 2025 |work=Haaretz}}</ref> ===Kingston upon Hull=== <!--Referenced from [[KCOM Group]] --> [[File:White payphone.jpg|thumb|upright|A Hull [[Red telephone box#K6|K6]] white telephone box]][[Kingston upon Hull]] ran a municipal telephone system from 1904. There were several such municipal services in the UK, but whereas most had been brought under the Post Office monopoly by 1913, Hull's, being very efficient, was allowed to remain under the control of Hull Corporation (the city council). As a result, although the Corporation used K6 kiosks, they were painted cream and had the crown omitted from the design. The Hull telephone system was privatised in 1999 and taken over by Kingston Communications (KC; later renamed [[KCOM Group]] in 2007). In about 2007 KC removed many of the cream K6 boxes. After public complaints at the loss of heritage it was agreed that about 125 of the boxes would be retained, and they remain in use. KC also allocated limited numbers (around 1,000) for sale to the public and many were sold off even before they had been removed from service. Hull also continues to use K8 and KX100 PLUS kiosks, and in the past has used other non-GPO/BT designs. In 2023 [[Historic England]] designated nine of the cream boxes as [[Listed building|Grade II listed structures]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/mar/03/hull-cream-coloured-phone-boxes-given-grade-ii-listed-status|first=Mike|last=Brown|title=Hull's cream-coloured phone boxes given Grade II-listed status|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|date=3 March 2023|access-date=3 March 2023}}</ref> === Crown Dependencies === [[File:GuernseyTelephoneBox.jpg|upright|thumb|Blue telephone boxes in Guernsey in 2005]] The telephone services of the [[Crown Dependencies]] were split at various times from the GPO. ==== Guernsey ==== [[Guernsey Telecoms]] painted its kiosks yellow with white window frames; they were repainted in blue when the company was sold to [[Cable & Wireless plc|Cable and Wireless]] in 2002. ==== Jersey ==== [[Jersey Telecom]] used locally made kiosks, painted in just yellow, or cream and yellow.<ref name="jersey-phone-boxes"> *{{cite news |title=Calls from Island phone boxes to be free |url=https://jerseyeveningpost.com/news/2015/04/08/calls-from-island-phone-boxes-to-be-free/ |access-date=11 May 2023 |newspaper=Jersey Evening Post |date=8 April 2015}} *{{cite web |title=Yellow phone box on St Aubin's Promenade in St Aubin, Jersey, Channel Islands |url=https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/yellow-phone-box-on-st-aubins-promenade-in-st-aubin-royalty-free-image/125974719 |website=Getty Images |date=21 September 2011 |access-date=11 May 2023 |language=en-us}} *{{cite web |last1=Ratcliffe |first1=Chris J. |title=Small pleasure boats stacked next to a yellow Jersey telephone box in La Bourg, Jersey, on Saturday |url=https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/small-pleasure-boats-stacked-next-to-a-yellow-jersey-news-photo/1232778155 |website=Getty Images |language=en-us |date=May 8, 2021}} </ref> ==== Isle of Man ==== [[Manx Telecom]] has left its kiosks in the red colour used by its predecessors British Telecom and the GPO. The telephone box in [[Cregneash]] was temporarily painted green, but this was only for a film and the phone box is now red again. === Overseas territories === ==== Cyprus ==== At least [[:File:Britse telefooncel op Cyprus.jpg|one red telephone box is present]] in [[Dhekelia]]. ==== Gibraltar ==== [[Gibtelecom]] operates red kiosks of various vintages.
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