telephone box
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A man has travelled from Cornwall to the Isle of Lewis to make 52 calls from a rural telephone box in order to keep it in service.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
There is also a telephone box, used by celebrities to answer questions in an attempt to win prizes.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2025
The enormous red-brick power station was designed by Giles Gilbert Scott, the architect behind the familiar British red telephone box and London’s Tate Modern museum.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 2, 2017
“Doctor Who” follows a time-traveling alien known as the Doctor, who moves through different dimensions to save the universe in the Tardis, a spaceship disguised as an old-fashioned British police telephone box.
From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 2017
They turned a corner, passing a telephone box and a bus shelter.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
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