Sir Giles Gilbert Scott's Cache Traditional Cache
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Sir Giles Gilbert Scott's Cache
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The cache in located in the village of Llanblethian and is a tribute to the design of Sir Giles Gilbert Scott. Bring your own pen/pencil as there is not one in the cache.
Sir Giles Gilbert Scott designed the red public telephone kiosk that is a familiar sight on the streets of the United Kingdom, despite a reduction in their numbers in recent years. The colour red was chosen to make them easy to spot.
The first standard public telephone kiosk introduced by the United Kingdom Post Office was produced in concrete in 1920 and was designated K1 (Kiosk No.1). This design was not of the same family as the familiar red telephone boxes.
The red telephone box was the result of a competition in 1924 to design a kiosk that would be acceptable to the London Metropolitan Boroughs which had hitherto resisted the Post Office's effort to erect K1 kiosks on their streets. The organisers invited entries from three respected architects together with the designs from the Post Office and from The Birmingham Civic Society. The Fine Arts Commission judged the competition and selected the design submitted by Giles Gilbert Scott.
The Post Office chose to make Scott's winning design in cast iron (Scott had suggested mild steel) and to paint it red (Scott had suggested silver, with a "greeny-blue" interior) and, with other minor changes of detail, it was brought into service as the Kiosk No.2 or K2. From 1926 K2 was deployed in and around London and the K1 continued to be erected elsewhere. Other variants, K3 through to K5, were introduced throughout the period up to 1935.
In 1935 a new design (known as K6) was designed to commemorate the silver jubilee of King George V. K6 was the first red telephone kiosk to be used extensively outside of London and many thousands were deployed in virtually every town and city, replacing most of the existing kiosks and establishing thousands of new sites. It has become a British icon, although it was not universally loved at the start. The red colour caused particular local difficulties and there were many requests for less visible colours. The red that is now much loved was then anything but, and the Post Office was forced into allowing a less strident grey with red glazing bars scheme for areas of natural and architectural beauty. Ironically, some of these areas that have preserved their telephone boxes have now painted them red.
Note: Parking is available adjacent to the cache site but be careful not to cause an obstruction when the nearby Village Hall is in use.
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