This was a little walk round the Royal Courts in London, then onto Embankment and then up to Westminster. First bit of nice weather for a while!

I took three cameras, a Fuji digital, a Nikon with some Delta Pro and the SX70 Polaroid. My main interest was the four telephone boxes on Carey Street.

The Carey Street Four

Located on the north side of the Royal Courts of Justice in Holborn, the four red telephone boxes are arranged in a pleasing symmetry; two K2s flanking a pair of K6s – the K standing for ‘Kiosk’

The K2 was designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, winning a GPO competition in 1924. Tall, elegant and expensive to produce, only around 1,500 were ever made, mostly installed in London. They were originally designed to be silver, but the GPO changed the colour scheme to red.

The K6 followed in 1935, a refined and more economical version by Scott again, this time to mark George V’s Silver Jubilee. It became the standard British phone box, with over 60,000 installed nationwide. It was cheaper, with more light, simpler glazing and much smaller! The K2 was over 9ft!

The Carey Street four are now decommissioned and locked, but as Grade II listed structures they remain protected. They are among the finest surviving examples of both types standing together in their original location.