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Grade II

One of two K6 telephone kiosks

Wallgate (outside Head Post Office), Wigan

Listed Date: 04/12/1987
Part of Group: Yes 1 Oth
At Risk: No
Historic England Ref: 326 (Link)

Description

The Telephone Kiosk Type K6 is Britain's most iconic red telephone box, designed in 1935 by renowned architect Sir Giles Gilbert Scott to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of King George V. It became the first standard red telephone kiosk to be deployed mass-scale across virtually every town and city outside of London